Descartes, Occasionalist
by Peter J. LeithartDescartes's metaphysics collapses into occasionalism. Continue Reading »
Descartes and the Mass
by Peter J. LeithartDescartes struggled to show how his ontology was consistent with transubstantiation. Continue Reading »
World Self-Revealed
by Peter J. LeithartThe epistemological turn of modernity is also an ontological turn. Continue Reading »
Dogmatic Descartes
by Peter J. LeithartOne of the earliest critics of Descartes claimed that despite his method of doubt, he was ultimately a dogmatist. Continue Reading »
Let’s Bring Sunday Back as a Day of Reflection About WHO We Are
by Austin StoneOne of our country’s most precious inheritance from the Puritans was the more or less compulsory cessation of commercial activity on Sunday. But we Hobbesian/Darwinian survivalists increasingly think there’s not time enough to allow the wasting of even a single day. Or . . . . Continue Reading »
The Modern Center
by Austin StoneOver at The American Scene, Alan Jacobs does the public service of reminding us that those medieval Christians didn’t put Earth at the center of the universe because they were arrogant: The center of the medieval cosmos is not the most important place, but the stillest and deadest place, the . . . . Continue Reading »
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