Perhaps my favorite recorded conversation in English literature is the short chat between Boswell and Dr. Johnson, when Boswell said he wanted to stand for election to Parliament, and Johnson advised against it:
When I was a student, my friends and I would stay up all night to discuss such questions as the truth or otherwise of determinism.
We cannot understand what it means to say that man is a rational animal without, at the same time, recognizing that a rational animal is a freak of nature.
Deconstructionists and their kin are aiming at making reality disappear — and for good.
I have picked out three main aspects of Dietrich von Hildebrand's legacy that speak to us powerfully even today: witness, personalist, and philosopher of beauty and the heart.
Where sentimentality pervades, we cannot make the proper distinctions.
There's a lot of talk these days about "The Way of Beauty" and even about more ambitious projects like "the re-enchantment of the world" — by everyone from casual bloggers to the Holy Father in Evangelii Gaudium.
The secular world is constantly trying to absorb the Catholic Church into itself.
In the handsome new book, The Loss and Recovery of Truth, we find a short 1978 essay of Gerhart Niemeyer.
