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Home: Core Subjects: Philosophy: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Philosophy: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Forgiveness and Irony - Roger ScrutonWhat makes the West strong. Read more... Forgiveness Is a Kind of Wild Justice - Theodore DalrympleRecently I was asked at a public discussion of crime and punishment at which I was a speaker whether I thought it was right that the government (in Britain) had made it illegal for an employer to ask a prospective employee whether he had a criminal record and, if so, its nature and extent. Read more... Freedom/License - Montague BrownFreedom and license must not be confused: freedom embraces responsibility and is guided by reason and virtue; license is choice without restraint. Read more... Freewill and Predestination - Peter KreeftIf God is not love but only knowledge, then it is difficult or impossible to see how human free will and divine predestination can both be true. But if God is love, there is a way. Read more... Generosity - Donald DeMarcoIt is greed that impoverishes us, not generosity. Read more... Glory and Splendor - part 3: The Beauty of Language - Peter KreeftWell, we've been talking about beauty. Let's talk more about the beauty of language, and thus talk a little more about language. Read more... Gratitude and Grace - Roger ScrutonIn the religions that are familiar to us, the idea of grace is of fundamental importance. Read more... Happiness Part 5: Blessed are the Peacemakers; Blessed are You when Men Persecute You - Peter KreeftThe seventh and eighth beatitudes. Read more... Happiness Part 6: Questions and Answers - Peter KreeftI thank you for sitting through a long lecture, which was your Purgatory; now you get to the Heaven of asking questions. Read more... Happiness: Ancient and Modern Concepts of Happiness - Peter KreeftMy topic today is Jesus' concept of happiness. And we must begin with the dullest and most necessary preliminary: defining our term. Read more... Happiness: Blessed are Those who Hunger and Thirst for Righteousness - Peter KreeftChrist's fourth beatitude, "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness," cuts to the rotten flesh at the heart of the modern world. Read more... How Do We Find Our Way Into the Wide World? - Pope Benedict XVIThe address of Pope Benedict XVI to the German parliament (Bundestag) the Reichstag, Berlin on September 22, 2011. Read more... How would the conversation go if Frederich Nietzsche met St. Thérèse of Lisieux? - Father Dwight LongeneckerG.K. Chesterton observes that every age is saved by a saint most contrary to the spirit of the age. Read more... Human and animal morality - Stephen BudianskyThough stories of seemingly altruistic animals tug at the heartstrings, humans are nature's sole moralists. Read more... Humility: The First of the Lively Virtues - Anthony EsolenHumility is more, far more, than a curative for pride. It is itself a mighty power. Read more... Identity - Peter KreeftThe human self is not a given, an object, an essence, whose essential nature is unchangeable and guaranteed, like everything else in the cosmos. Our nature is a task given to us to achieve. We alone can fail to achieve our nature. Read more... Introduction & Principles of Ethics - Father Robert Spitzer, S.J.The following ten universal principles form the foundation of civility, justice, and objectivity in cultures throughout the world. Their presence assures the possibility of humane civilization and their absence (even their partial absence) opens the path for corruption, deceit, injustice, and cultural decline. Following is the introduction and the first 19 pages from chapter two of Father Spitzer's new book, Ten Universal Principles: A Brief Philosophy of the Life Issues. Read more... Is Free Will an Illusion? - Donald DeMarcoDo we have free will? Are we truly responsible for our actions? Or, on the other hand, are we merely passive pawns who are completely at the mercy of impersonal or alien forces? Read more... Is smoking immoral? - Janet E. SmithWhat does the Catholic Church teach about the morality of smoking cigarettes? Read more... Is Utilitarianism Useful? - Roger KimballIt's all well and good to talk about pursuing "what works" until we come up against inescapable moral limits. Read more... It's All Your Fault - Theodore DalrympleOne way and another, I have spent a lot of my life in the study of resentment, my own and that of others. Read more... Joy - Peter KreeftJoy is more than happiness, just as happiness is more than pleasure. Read more... Justice - Father James V. Schall, S.J.Benedict XVI associates justice with judgment. Read more... Justice, Wisdom, Courage, and Moderation: The Four Cardinal Virtues - PETER KREEFTThese four cardinal virtues are not the only virtues, but they are the cardes, the "hinges", on which all the other virtues turn. Read more... Last Things: On Rereading The Apology - Father James V. Schall, S.J.Each semester, with a class, I reread The Apology of Socrates. It is something I always look forward to. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 [>>] Pages Updated On: Thu Jun 13 2013 - 17:26:00
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