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Fear of Death & Human Nature
Natural Law and Human Rights: Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason (Catholic Ideas for a Secular World) by Pierre Manent From the introduction written by Daniel J. Mahoney: For the acting human being and the acting Christian, death cannot be … Continue reading
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Tagged Daniel J. Mahoney, death, human nature, Pierre Manent, truth, virtue
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Beauty’s vengence
“Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along … Continue reading
A Coda on COV&R in Innsbruck (present and past…)
Bleary eyed after 24 hours of travel from Austria to San Francisco the accumulated work of two weeks away from the Cornerstone Forum office awaits me. Before I dig into the pile of paper, emails, and related chores I would … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Péguy, Colloquium on Violence & Religion, immigration, Innsbruck, Islam, René Girard, Richard Wilbur, scapegoats, truth
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Feeding the gods
One of the great values of what John Paul II called the Splendor of Truth is that it shatters even the most impervious ideological barriers erected to hide it. A recent archeological find in Mexico City detailed in Science magazine … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, Christian, civilization, human sacrifice, pagan, truth
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Calculus
The school year has begun and many high school and college students are beginning the study of calculus – the mathematical study of continuous change. In the present age, if one lives through all the intimate and personal changes from … Continue reading
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Tagged change, Christianity, evangelism, family, Heraclitus, morality, New Evangelization, Rainer Maria Rilke, tradition, truth
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The Science of Facts & The Epistemology of Truth
A number of very smart people have made very conspicuous fools of themselves lately by not recognizing a truth expressed with such lapidary economy by Benedict XVI in his marvelous book, Jesus of Nazareth: The highest truths cannot be forced … Continue reading
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Tagged Benedict XVI, facts, Hans Urs von Balthasar, knowledge, Leon Kass, science, truth
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Truth & Authority: Dante’s Paradiso Canto XXIX
Beatrice instructs Dante on the Gospel and how it has been preached to the world: They do not count what blood and agony planted it in the world, nor Heaven’s pleasure in those who search it in humility. Paradiso … Continue reading
Beatrice & the Price of Truth: Dante’s Paradiso Canto XXVIII
When she whose powers imparadise my mind had so denounced and laid bare the whole truth of the present state of miserable mankind…. Dante pays the price for poetic truth.
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Dialogue…
“When you deny the opportunity for people to refer to an objective truth, dialogue is rendered impossible and violence, whether declared or hidden, becomes the rule of law of human relationships. Without openness to the transcendent, which allows us to … Continue reading
Truth? What is truth…
“That a man should think he’s Napoleon, or that he’s a woman, may be no surprise, for humans may imagine a wide range of implausible things. But that the claim should be credited, without challenge, as a truth, offers yet … Continue reading
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