ShareAD MAIOREM DEI GLORIAM! Happy Feast Day!
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ShareI am the President of the Dead Philosopher’s Society since the beginning of April and in my second year of theology studies at Holy Apostles (Dogmatic Theology). I have a very strong interest in philosophy. In fact, I am studying theology to prepare for more work in philosophy. I have a solid background in Kant [...] ShareAlasdair MacIntyre’s First Principles, Final Ends, and Contemporary Philosophical Issues was the Aquinas lecture in 1990 at Marquette University. This is related to his argument in After Virtue that modern philosophy has very literally lost its way, and the problems it faces are insoluble. The difficulties are twofold, and stem from the Cartesian turn to [...] ShareFrom a scholar of my acquaintance, John Reilly: the article by George Johnson that appeared in the Science Section on February 16, 1998, entitled: “Useful Invention or Absolute Truth: What Is Math?” The piece was occasioned by a flurry of recent books challenging mathematical Platonism. This is the belief, shared by most mathematicians and many [...] ShareFrom Edward Feser, here is a list of helpful introductory volumes for the study of Thomistic philosophy, especially Neo-scholastic Thomism. I am familiar with only two of the books listed by Feser, but I particularly like Wallace’s Elements of Philosophy. This is a textbook for the Natural Philosophy class, but it is simply a very [...] ShareCourtesy of Crossroads Magazine |
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