by Brett Williams | Apr 5, 2018 | Central Blog, History, Humanities, modernity, Philosophy, Science, Secularism
I just finished a great book – Descartes Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason. In it, NY Times best-selling author Russell Shorto retells the fascinating tale of Descartes’ remains and compares their history to the philosophical...
by Brett Williams | Oct 25, 2017 | Epistemology, Philosophy, Uncategorized
Now suppose that I am looking at a bright red patch. I may say ‘this is my present percept’; I may also say my present percept exists’; but I must also say ‘this exists,’ because the word ‘exists’ is only significant when applied to a description as opposed to a name....
by Brett Williams | Sep 25, 2017 | Philosophy, Theology, Uncategorized
Watch this interview from 1987. A wonderful explanation of Modernity’s moorings.
by Kevin Bauder | Sep 9, 2017 | Bauder's Reading, Conservatism, History, Philosophy, Theology, What We're Reading
Medievals experienced the divine as far more present in their daily lives. As it has been for most people, Christian and otherwise, throughout history, religion was everywhere, and— this is crucial— as a matter not merely of belief but of experience. In the mind of...
by Kevin Bauder | Sep 7, 2017 | Philosophy
There is very little about Hegel that I find amusing–certainly not reading him. Even less amusing are those pontificateurs who pretend to understand him and are prepared to defend him. I’ve never read a thing about Hegel that proved to be even mildly...
by Kevin Bauder | Aug 29, 2017 | America, Jonathan Edwards, Philosophy, Politics, Theology
Writing for The Imaginative Conservative, Gordon Arnold argues that Jonathan Edwards was a founding father of American political thought. Edwards offered a political philosophy which was simultaneously Augustinian and compatible with facets of the Enlightenment. He...
