Siris

I have recently been re-reading Thomas Aquinas's commentary on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, in Richard Berquist's translatio...

We may be able quite to comprehend that God can communicate immediately with man, for without the intervention of bodily means He communicat...

As some of my readers know, Siris takes its name from a work by Bishop George Berkeley, Siris . However, the subheading I use, "A Golde...

Again, a diverse and semi-random selection from my notes. They are, as the sidebar says, pollen and literary seedings. It is noteworthy that...

LENT IS A GIFT! Lent is a gift from God to us, a gift which is admirable, marvelous, one that we desire. Now a gift of what? I would say tha...

* This paper, worth reading, came up in the comments recently: Charles Mills, Kant's Untermenschen (PDF) * Congratulations, or somethin...

The first kind of false travel is travel to improve one's mind. This matter of improving one's mind has undoubtedly been overdone. I...