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Dying for the telephone company

I’ve recently been getting into William Cavanaugh’s work; everything he writes seems to be incredibly perceptive. Here’s a quote from his essay, “Killing for the Telephone Comp… more →

City of God

Dying for the telephone company — 1 comment

Andrew wrote 1 month ago: I’ve recently been getting into William Cavanaugh’s work; everything he writes seems to … more →

Tags: Politics, Quotes, Community, nation-state, Nationalism, William T. Cavanaugh

Alasdair MacIntyre on the Supreme Court

cjsmith wrote 1 month ago: In the last post, I highlighted Jack Balkin’s argument that the Heller case was a response via … more →

Tags: Politics, Law, Heller, After Virtue

Variegated

ducksanddrakes wrote 2 months ago: Celebrating its ten year anniversary, The Philosophers’ Magazine publishes a post drawn from a lar … more →

Tags: language, Teaching, Philosophy, Simon Blackburn, Jerry Fodor, A.C. Grayling, Jaakko Hintikka, Colin McGinn, Martha Nussbaum

That sound you just heard was the gauntlet being thrown down — 5 comments

John wrote 3 months ago: What’s a blogger do when two of his favorite Webthinkers - one of whom has managed to be a suc … more →

Tags: Agriculture, conservatism, Economics, Energy, Environment, Government, libertarianism, Science/Tech, urbanism

Subsidiarity and public reason — 2 comments

John wrote 5 months ago: Having already expressed my appreciation of this post by Jim Manzi, let me now do the same for this … more →

Tags: Government, Philosophy, Politics

Formative Books for Service — 1 comment

joelrepic wrote 5 months ago: By Joel Repic I thought I would go ahead and recommend some books that made a real impact upon my se … more →

Tags: Books, Ministry, Book List, Book Review, Jim Cymbala, Rutba House, Jonathan Wilson, Mark Nolll, David Bebbington

Quotes to Note 2: The Importance of Wicked StepMothers — 2 comments

fundyreformed wrote 5 months ago: I recently added a books widget from GuruLib (check out my “Books I’m Reading” sec … more →

Tags: Miscellany, quotes to note, CS Lewis, Faeries, faery tales, Imagination, Narnia, Narrative, stepmothers

From the "pen" of Robert Shields — 1 comment

mrsaturdaypants wrote 6 months ago: See, here’s the reason Mac’s notion of practices won’t work:  There is no way to … more →

Re: Public Spaces and Political Opinions — 1 comment

Andrew wrote 6 months ago: Dan: About your post on political opinions, I have a couple thoughts. Regarding the talking past eac … more →

Tags: Evangelicals, Culture, Politics, Churches, consumerism, Psychology, Suburbs, ethics, megachurches

After Virtue:: a critique of modernity from the inside — 5 comments

ericdarylmeyer wrote 7 months ago: Alasdair MacIntyre provides an exquisite account of the moral failings of modernity in After Virtue. … more →

Tags: Culture, ethics, History, Philosophy, Modernity

Seminar Three: The Enlightenment - The making of the modern world — 1 comment

basem wrote 9 months ago: Overview Let us start by contextualising the historic period of the enlightenment: … It is bro … more →

Tags: Seminars, enlightenment, ethics, kant

The demise of a tradition? — 1 comment

Christian wrote 1 year ago: During my “parking lot duty” this morning I read through a few pages of After Virtue. I … more →

Tags: Philosophy, tradition


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