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Saturday, April 30, 2011
On Hume's Full Definition of Miracles
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I don't know if it's ever been noticed how Hume's definition of miracle (SBN 115) is linkable to Malebranche. In a footnote to t...
Friday, April 29, 2011
The Humean Platonist
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The most perfect happiness, surely, must arise from the contemplation of the most perfect object. But what more perfect than beauty and virt...
Catherine Benincasa
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Today is the Feast of St. Catherine Benincasa of Siena (1347-1380), Doctor of the Church. The following is Giovanni di Paolo's The Mysti...
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Hume on Moral Beauty
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Some species of beauty, especially the natural kinds, on their first appearance, command our affection and approbation; and where they fail ...
Three Poem Re-Drafts
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The Harp and the Vine You ask, and I wonder, but I still know my mind; here in the garden the columbine spirals and curls, begging for ...
Dante in Heaven
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The Divine Comedy is such an epic poem we tend to forget the details of its setting, treating it as in some way timeless. In fact, the three...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Notes and Links
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* Gabriel McKee ranks Phillip K. Dick film adaptations . Paycheck was much stronger, and The Minority Report somewhat weaker, than McKee s...
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