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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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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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If there is one idea that comes up in every lecture at Acton University, it is a particular view of the human person mentioned in shorthand as “Christian anthropology.” This
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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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"All poets and heroes, like Memnon, are the children of Aurora, and emit their music at sunrise. To him whose elastic and vigourous thought keeps pace with the sun,
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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
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This is a short essay on Jonathan Edwards essay The Beauty of the World, written this month by one of my high school students. I found it to be compelling
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See my first two posts on beauty as introduction to the question: Is beauty objective? and attempting to define our goal in aesthetics. Here I shall endeavor a slightly different
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Roots of Self-Responsibility and Optimism "All is well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well." Julian of Norwich I have suggested
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Joy is the Only Psychological Fact "All day I think about it, then at night I say it: Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to
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Entitlement is the only sin. "Value the least gifts no less than the greatest, and simple graces as especial favours. If you remember the dignity of the Giver, no
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Appropriate Emotions The first and foremost fact we must acquaint ourselves with is that certain emotions are appropriate given a stimulus and certain others are not. See CS Lewis for