"He is best known for the celebrated 'ontological argument' for the existence of God in the Proslogion, but his contributions to philosophical theology (and indeed to philosophy more generally) go well beyond the ontological argument."
Showing posts with label Philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Philosophy. Show all posts
Anselm update at the SEP
Today, on, though not explicitly for, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, an updated entry for St. Anselm, authored by Thomas Williams, has been published at the
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Atlantic Intellectual
'The life of an extraordinary French scholar'
Rowen Williams reviewed Étienne Gilson: Une biographie intellectuelle et politique by Florian Michel in The Times Literary Supplement.
Both Gilson and [Jacques] Maritain found the post-Vatican II era in the Roman Catholic Church exasperating and disillusioning, and both wrote eloquent jeremiads about it. Michel is a judicious guide to Gilson’s polemics of this period. Neither Gilson nor Maritain was simply being a grumpy old man; they were both anxious that the euphoria of a culture in love with its potential future would lose touch with the deep background of its moral assumptions – the Christian humanism that had emerged slowly and steadily out of the post-classical world, shaping new concepts of liberty and personal dignity and – not least – the sense of a universal human good. ....
"... A slipshod liturgy, poor translations, fear of what might be challengingly unfamiliar and a muddled progressivist philosophy (Gilson had no time for Teilhard de Chardin) might not in themselves be the end of the world. But as symptoms of intellectual and imaginative laziness they deserved to be castigated, and Gilson was not reluctant to oblige. His own retrieval of Aquinas’s thought, and – importantly – the entire intellectual and cultural world out of which it came, had convinced him that this was a story and a language that provided essential clarifications for European culture about its priorities. In his unflinching theological universalism, his sweeping scepticism about ideologies as secularized and debased theologies, his resistance to Manichaean myths in global politics, and his defence of the importance of the primary communities that make up the state and which the state has to nurture and support, Gilson often strikes some very timely notes. ...
UW Debate: UW Atheists, Humanists, & Agnostics VS UW Badger Catholic - Feb 16
Is science the only way of knowing?UW
Can you be moral without God?
What is our moral obligation to the environment?
"The Principle" movie
from a reader:
Update:
This looks pretty cool. Got wind of it from Michael Voris, and then he did a show on it. I thought his show was worth watching...and I'm excited for the release of the film.
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Post by Karl Keating.
Dietrich von Hildebrand Lecture Thursday in La Crosse
Newman Center - La CrosseDietrich von Hildebrand Lecture
Catholic philosopher and theologian Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889-1977) was hated by Hitler, a defender of the Jews, a friend of John Paul II, and a philosopher of love and beauty. According to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, “In the history of modern Catholic philosophy, his name will be preeminent!” Come and learn about von Hildebrand’s unique life, personalism, and phenomenology, from his student of four years, Professor Don R. Clark, on Thursday,
May 2, 8:00 pm, in the chapel here at the Newman Center.
A great sign for the Newman Center. It's parishioners are probably the most liberal in the area, but a nice recovery seems to be going on. Hildebrand could seriously be made a Doctor of the Church, and the lecture indicates healthy signs for the parish. I may attend.
This Rock had some nice articles on Hidebrand. Check out A Philosopher with Heart.
UW Badger Catholic hosts Baylor philosophy and church-state studies professor
continue at The Badger HeraldA student organization welcomed a philosopher of religion to campus who applied ethics and politics to address the question: “Can you be moral without religion?”
Baylor University professor of philosophy and church-state studies Francis Beckwith spoke to Badger Catholic Thursday night on his view of morality and said it is founded upon a “divine source, which is God.” Beckwith described the Natural Moral Law with five key attributes of what morality seems to be.
He said these are defined by becoming non-physical through non-inferential acts of understanding, forms of communications and forces people can feel prior to any behavior or compulsion. He added that violating moral rules makes people feel guilty, and morals are unable to be explained by something else. Beckwith also said there are three main options of where morality is founded.
The first, he said, includes the idea that some view morality as “an illusion.” He said morals may not be obeyed if there is no jurisdiction provided.
He said the second option includes how morality is founded by possibly the naturalist evolution. He said in this view, moral meaning comes from “past traits of our ancestors.”
The third option, which he said includes his own view, is that morality is created by God or divine inspiration. From a meta-ethical standpoint, Beckwith also said morality makes most sense when viewed through a religious perspective. “Without religion or a divine source, there is no meaning,” he said
University of Wisconsin; the one legitimate place to send your Catholic children to college.... that just sounds weird, but it is true.
Peter Kreeft: Glory and Splendor: The Beauty of Language
continue at Catholic EducationWell, we've been talking about beauty. Let's talk more about the beauty of language, and thus talk a little more about language.
JRR Tolkien; continue to see how he fits in.
The goal of the philosopher is logos. Logos, like its Chinese counterpart tao, is an incomparably profound and multivalent word which has many meanings, essentially three. First, the ultimate nature of things, the one source of all essential reality and intelligibility. Second, human intelligence, wisdom, understanding, truth, as the knowledge of that essential reality. Thirdly, right language, right communication or speech or word or argument, that is, the expression of that knowledge.
This is one of the most profound articles I've ever read.
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