Though snobbery was once quite popular and even socially acceptable in Europe, it was never popular in America. But one form of it still is, in both continents: chronological snobbery.
Though agape comes from God, it resides in our free will as human beings.
Schopenhauer's philosophy may be conveniently summarized by a concatenation of three words: Will Strife Misery.
No philosopher ever proposed a more simple and straightforward view of life than the one Ayn Rand urges upon us.
Each semester, with a class, I reread The Apology of Socrates. It is something I always look forward to.
The three years of service that Cardinal Francis George of Chicago has given the Church as president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops have been a great blessing.
The suicidal proclivity of our time, writes J. Budziszewski, is to deny the obvious. Our hearts are riddled with desires that oppose their deepest longings, because we demand to have happiness on terms that make happiness impossible. Why? And what can we do about it? Budziszewski addresses these vital questions in his persuasive new book, The Line Through the Heart.
In the religions that are familiar to us, the idea of grace is of fundamental importance.
St. Thomas Aquinas did not bequeath to the world extensive treatises on the topic of beauty.
