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Pope Benedict, Logos, Chaos, and Freedom
American Thinker | Andrew Walden | May. 3, 2008
Speaking at the White House, Pope Benedict XVI April 16 embraced America’s “quest for freedom….” Benedict explained: “Freedom is not only a gift, but also a summons to personal responsibility. Americans know this from experience - almost every town in this country has its monuments honoring those who sacrificed their lives in defense of freedom, both at home and abroad.”
Today, as in the Civil War, Logos is on the side of freedom. And in spite of the secular media effort to obfuscate, Benedict’s message couldn’t be clearer: Logos rises to defend against the secular call for submission to the Chaos unleashed by Islam. Continue Reading »
0 comments Tuesday 06 May 2008 | Banescu | Christianity, Roman Catholic, Philosophy, Intelligent design |
Be Happy: The American Refusal to Deal with Suffering
American Thinker | Jude Acosta | May. 3, 2008
God bless America. I mean that with all sincerity. We are a nation of hopefuls and always have been. We march on Washington. We cure diseases that have wracked humanity for eons. We break records and run faster-than-four-minute miles. We split atoms and conquer space. We manifest our destinies and defy the presence of gorges, rivers, and mountains that threaten to block our collective will. Continue Reading »
1 comment Monday 05 May 2008 | Banescu | Christianity, Philosophy, Secularism/Culture war |
Introduction: utopia vs. nationhood
New Criterion
Roger Kimball January 2007
I think I know man, but as for men, I know them not.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In a memorable passage at the beginning of The Critique of Pure Reason, Kant evokes a soaring dove that, “cleaving the air in her free flight,” feels the resistance of the wind and imagines that its flight “would be easier still in empty space.” A fond thought, of course, since absent that aeolian pressure the dove would simply plummet to the ground.
How regularly the friction of reality works that way: making possible our endeavors even as it circumscribes and limits their extent. And how often, like Kant’s dove, we are tempted to imagine that our freedoms would be grander and more extravagant absent the countervailing forces that make them possible.
comments off Tuesday 09 Jan 2007 | JBL | Philosophy |
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Historian, Is Dead at 65
New York Times Margalit Fox January 7, 2007
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, a noted historian and women’s studies scholar who roiled both disciplines with her transition from Marxist-inclined feminist to conservative public intellectual, died on Tuesday in Atlanta. She was 65 and had lived in Atlanta for many years.
Ms. Fox-Genovese’s husband, the historian Eugene D. Genovese, confirmed the death, citing no specific cause. He said that his wife had lived with multiple sclerosis for the last 15 years and that her health had declined after she underwent major surgery in October.
1 comment Tuesday 09 Jan 2007 | JBL | Philosophy |
Jean-François Revel: liberty’s champion
Ed. Some of you may have been familiar with Ravel. His “How Democracies Perish” is a good read as I recall (it’s been a few years…). He died last April, 2006.
Open Democracy Henri Astier May 4, 2006
France’s foremost political thinker was also her most misunderstood, says Henri Astier.
Jean-François Revel, who died on Sunday 30 April at the age of 82, was not just the grand old man of French political literature; he was a leading exponent of freedom in the tradition of Raymond Aron, Alexis de Tocqueville and Baron Montesquieu.
comments off Sunday 01 Oct 2006 | Jacobse | Philosophy |
