Wednesday, December 04, 2024

Links of Note

 * Matthew Minerd, The Providential Structuring of Humanity through the Spiritual Soul's Relation to the Body, at "To Be a Thomist"

* Carl Olsen interviews Bishop Erik Varden, at "Catholic World Report"

* Hui-Chieh Loy & Daryl Ooi, Conceptions of Knowledge in Classical Chinese Philosophy (PDF)

* James Ungureanu, Sir Isaac Newton as Religious Prophet, Heretic, and Reformer, "Church Life Journal"

* Ariel Melamedoff, Shepherd's Metaphysics of Emergence (PDF); I'm not sure emergence is the right concept to use here, but it's an interesting argument.

* Edward Feser, Hume's Trojan Horse, reviews Aaron Alexander Zubia's The Political Thought of David Hume, at "Claremont Review of Books"

* Caleb Cohoe, To What Extent Must Creatures Return to the One? (PDF)

* Cheryl Misak, The underground university, at "Aeon"

* Edith Hall, Who can claim Aristotle?, at "Aeon"

* Ben Page, Dis-positioning Euthyphro (PDF)

* Peter Mommsen, Educating for Freedom, at "Plough"

* Ryan Miller, Artifacts: Ontology as Easy as It Gets (PDF)

* Ed Condon, What if the Vatican actually goes broke?, at "The Pillar". At some point I think it has to be recognized that you can't have a globalized version of the kinds of services the Holy See began to provide in the late medieval period and Renaissance while doing it on the budget of a regional grocery store chain; either you need massively greater revenue or you just have to start admitting that you can't provide the services, however nice they might be. But this seems something that people have severe difficulty understanding; they demand that the Holy See do vast numbers of costly things and also that it have no money to do them. But the problem is in some sense baked in, and continues from its beginning -- most of what we think of as corruption of the Church in the Renaissance is a byproduct of people doing the same thing then. If you increase demands and but do not increase revenue concomitantly, you are incentivizing cheating on one or the other or both.

* Benjamin Randolph, ‘When will the wickedness of man have an end?’ The Problem of Divine Providence in Cugoano’s Thoughts and Sentiments (PDF)

* Henrik Karlsson, Authenticity as Dialogue, at "Escaping Flatland"

* Seyyed Jaaber Mousavirad, Is Knowledge a Justified Belief? (PDF)

* David Yaffe, In Love We Disappear, on Leonard Cohen, at "Tablet"