Thursday, October 08, 2009

Sexual Liberation: What You Liberate Might Not Let You Go Free

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“If the demand for sexual pleasure is so compelling that we can throw overboard moral principles that extend back to the very roots of our c...
Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Stanley Fish on Liberalism's Inability to Be Fair to Religions that Don't Mirror Its Presuppositions

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“Liberalism as a doctrine is incapable of accomodating strong religiosity and the reason is simple. Liberalism as both a philosophy and a th...
Monday, August 10, 2009

Carlyle on Rousseau and the Consequences of Ideas

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"Thomas Carlyle, the eminent Scottish essayist and sometime pphilosopher, was once scolded at a dinner party for endlessly chattering a...
Friday, August 07, 2009

Irenaeus: The Gnostics, Denial of the Virgin Birth, and Post Modern Pathologies

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"A certain Cerinthus taught in Asia that the world was not made by the first God, but by some Power which was separated and distant fro...
Thursday, August 06, 2009

Camus on Love and Frenetic Daftness

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A beautiful section in the opening of Camus' The Plague : "Certainly nothing is commoner nowadays than to see people working from m...

The Gnostics and Anti-Semitism

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Noticed in Irenaeus today several places where the Gnostic doctrine recounted implied anti-Semitism. For example, according to one sect Chri...
Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Eternal Beauty and Fools Daily Despoiling It In Their Hearts, Driven By A Principle of this World

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“But since these men differ among themselves both in doctrine and in tradition, and since those of them who are acknowledged as the more mod...
Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Bejamin Paloff takes Pot Shot at Czeslaw Milosz

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I am annoyed by apparent pot shots at the late, great Czeslaw Milosz in an article in the Nation entitled “Cures for the Common Cold War: Po...

Notes on Irenaus's Against Heresies

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“Hence, they claim, material substance took its beginning from ignorance and grief, fear and bewilderment.” -Irenaeus, Against Heresies , Bk...