Saturday, March 18, 2023
How to define “wokeness”
A common talking
point among the woke is the claim that “woke” is just a term of abuse that has
no clear meaning. Whether many of them really
believe this or are just obfuscating is not clear, but in any event it isn’t
true. I would suggest that what critics
of wokeness have in mind is pretty obviously captured in the following definition:
Wokeness
is a paranoid delusional
hyper-egalitarian mindset that tends to see oppression and injustice where they
do not exist or greatly to exaggerate them where they do exist.
Friday, March 10, 2023
This month at First Things
My review of
Thomas Ward’s superb new book Ordered
by Love: An Introduction to John Duns Scotus appears in the current
issue of First Things. I was recently
interviewed by Mark Bauerlein for the First
Things podcast about my book All
One in Christ: A Catholic Critique of Racism and Critical Race Theory.
Friday, March 3, 2023
Naturalism versus Katz’s Platonism
Naturalism
holds that there is nothing more to reality than the world of concrete entities
causally related to one another within space and time. Since this is the realm studied by the natural
sciences (such as physics, chemistry, and biology), naturalism can also be characterized
as the view that the subject matter of natural science is all that there is. Naturalism thus denies the existence of God,
of angelic intellects, of immaterial souls (whether conceived of along the
lines of Descartes’ res cogitans or
in some other way), and of Platonic Forms and other abstract objects.
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