Charles De Koninck and Slavoj Žižek, Dialectical Materialism and David of Dinant
Charles De Koninck points out that the difference between dialectical idealism and dialectical materialism is largely an illusion. The absolute idealism of Hegel is really more materialist than the...
View ArticleThe Three Stages of Philosophy in Miniature
A teacher of mine likes to warn me against making the history of thought a system. The hap-hazard currents of the thoughts of men do not really follow the simplistic patterns that lazy generalization...
View ArticlePontificate of Hope
My confrere Pater Johannes Paul and I went to Rome with a group of pilgrims for the beatification of Pope John Paul II. It was tremendously moving and all that sort of thing, but the trip was also kind...
View ArticleOn Jokes and the Difference between Austria and Prussia
I think that the carnival is an irrational institution, and that St Philip Neri was entirely right to try to abolish it. The irrationality is mostly limited to February, but in German-speaking parts it...
View ArticleUsury and Growth
I am by no means an admire of leftist politics, but I must admit that the English Labour MP in the above clip is attacking a real evil. The so-called payday loan companies that give short-term loans at...
View ArticleNon abbiate paura
One way in which Christ brings peace is by conquering fear: On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and...
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