Thursday, November 04, 2021

Linkabilia

 * Elliot Polski, Thomas Aquinas on Grace as a Mysterious Kind of Creature (PDF)

* Lloyd Strickland, Do We Need a Plant Theodicy? (PDF)

* Rudolf Schuessler, The Debate on Probable Opinions in the Scholastic Tradition 

* Meg Wallace, The polysemy of 'part' (PDF)

* Melissa Merritt, Kant and Stoic Affections (PDF)

* Yutang Jin, What Confucianism and for Whom? The Value and Dilemma of Invoking Confucianism in Confucian Political Theories

* Jake Rossen discusses Michelangelo's poem about how awful it was painting the Sistine Chapel

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* Philip Jenkins looks at the influence of Bible translations on weird fiction.

* Willem deVries, Hegel today, at Aeon.

* The old name for a number n raised to the eighth power was the zenzizenzizenzic of n.

* Dwight Furrow, The Scandal of Philosophy

* Lauren Moya Ford discusses recent discoveries about Van Gogh's painting process and materials.