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Saturday, May 4, 2024
Dignitas Infinita at The Catholic Thing
Monday, April 29, 2024
Plato and Aristotle on youth and politics
Friday, April 19, 2024
Daniel Dennett (1942-2024)
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Mansini on the development of doctrine
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Two problems with Dignitas Infinita
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Western civilization's immunodeficiency disease
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Ed Piskor (1982-2024)
The illusion of AI
Friday, March 29, 2024
Wishful thinking about Judas
Jesuit Britain?
Monday, March 25, 2024
Mind, matter, and malleability
Friday, March 15, 2024
The metaphysics of individualism
Traditionally, in Catholic philosophy, a person is understood to be a substance possessing intellect and will. Intellect and will, in turn, are understood to be immaterial. Hence, to be a person is ipso facto to be incorporeal – wholly so in the case of an angel, partially so in the case of a human being. And qua partially incorporeal, human beings are partially independent of the forces that govern the rest of the material world.
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
When do popes speak ex cathedra?
Sunday, February 25, 2024
What counts as magisterial teaching?
Monday, February 19, 2024
A comment on comments
Dear reader, if it seems your comment has not been approved, sometimes it actually has been approved even if you don’t see it. The reason is that once a combox reaches 200 comments, the Blogger software will not show any new comments made after that unless you click “Load more…” at the bottom of the comments page. The trouble is that this is in small print and easily overlooked. In the screen cap above, I’ve circled in red what you should look for.