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Socrates, Remy, and the Solitary Contemplation of Beauty

In Plato’s Symposium, Socrates is shown to be very strange. In an episode related by Alcibiades, Socrates is said to have stood all day and night in an army

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Brief Reflections on Roman History

"Use dragons to keep wolves under control, and you eventually have to reward them. And then, they do what they want." That's the inherent danger of

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Thomas Says: Killing Plants and Animals

As a way of getting my blogging going, I thought I’d start a series of posts on some teachings of Thomas Aquinas.  I think this will be interesting (at

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Morality, Beauty, and Abercrombie

There are, at least, two general ways of thinking about moral rights and goods.One way is to think of rights as protections against others who would prevent me from

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Autonomy, Eternity, and Value

We are thus stuck between two unrealistic views of the autonomy of the individual. The first is that the self can be autonomous forever; the second is that only the

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A Midsummer Night's Dance: Love's Beauty and Roles

The Pacific Northwest Ballet’s (PNB) performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream lifted a corner of the veil between plodding human beings and the world of fairies. The stage

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Fasting for Strength

"Don't give into some illusion and lose your power, but even if you have, if you've lost all will and control, they come back when

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Towards an Incarnational Aesthetic

The Sword and the Shaving Brush Towards a Biblical understanding of fashion by Timothy Bartel Part VI - Towards a Christian Aesthetic Now that this first principle of Christian aesthetics has

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Solving the Three Aesthetic Problems

The Sword and the Shaving Brush Towards a Biblical understanding of fashion by Timothy Bartel Part V - Solving the Three Problems While it may be possible to tackle these three

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A Brief History of Clothing

The Sword and the Shaving Brush Towards a Biblical understanding of fashion By Timothy Bartel Part II - A Brief History of Clothing The wool dress I saw at Biola began

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The Sword and the Shaving Brush - Towards a Biblical Understanding of Fashion

The Sword and the Shaving Brush, Part I Towards a Christian understanding of fashion By Timothy Bartel Part I It was a dress made out of wool—not finely spun

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Looking Back To See The Future

There are two ways to see the future. One is to receive a vision of all time and all reality. The other is to study the past for patterns that