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Introduction Opening Passage from We : I shall simply copy, word for word, the proclamation that appeared today in the One State Gazette...

Today is the feast of Bl. John Duns Scotus, the Subtle Doctor. Given his importance in the intellectual realm, we know surprisingly little a...

Bill Vallicella has an interesting post in which he considers three questions : 1. What is the difference between an Aristotelian primary ...

Michael Flynn has a good series of posts on the basics of Aquinas's First Way: First Way, Some Background First Way, Part I: A Movin...

People sometimes talk (in a vague way) about beautiful character, or about an action being morally beautiful, or about something being in go...

I'm not wholly sure why, but I was thinking last night of how brilliant the opening of the Chorus for Act IV of Henry V is, in narrativ...

If the objects of the contrary passions be totally different, the passions are like two opposite liquors in different bottles, which have no...