Philosophy, the study of wisdom, is not one thing & religion another... What is the exercise of philosophy but the exposition of the rules of true religion by which the supreme & principal cause of all things, God, is worshipped with humility & rationally searched for? — Eriugena

"The great books aren't great because they talk about what their heroes do; they're great books because they're about you." - Ben Crocker Today, students at UATX learned the art of reading a great book: 1. Read a great book closely. Read it like a love letter: study the meaning

Edvard Munch, The Sun

Are you using the correct type of argument to make your point? 3 forms of argumentation, according to Peirce's Triangle: Abduction: Likeliest explanation from the evidence. Induction: Broad conclusion from specific instances. Deduction: Applying a general rule to a case.

Moonlight Patrol, from One Hundred Aspects of Moon, by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1839-1892

Table of Contents from Losurdo’s “Western Marxism” as requested

writing about sleep. i love dürer's pillows.

Us from Mars...

People using triple-decker buses in Berlin, Germany, 1926.

Fire of Love (2022), Dir. Sara Dosa

Philosophy as a Rite of Rebirth: From Ancient Egypt to Neoplatonism by Algis Uždavinys

The cultural history of videogame consoles

Two years ago today at Oriel College, Oxford

"He, therefore, who is not illumined by such great splendor of created things is blind; he who is not awakened by such great clamor is deaf; he who does not praise God because of all these effects is dumb; he who does not note the First Principle from such great signs is foolish.

"Art creates beauty. The beautiful is a transcendental of being, and to approach being as such is always to reach the threshold of the sacred.... The beautiful is... the most modest of all those modalities of being, since it is merely the good of sensible apperception of being,

And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. - Isaiah 13:19

If the mystical feeling is to be considered an integral part of human nature, the content of the philosophy of mysticism may very well evolve because our representation of the universe evolves; but never will any doctrine do more complete justice to the experiences which are the

David Bentley Hart is the greatest living American religious thinker & writer. He is even perhaps, say, the C.S. Lewis of our generation. And while DBH may not (yet) be as beloved as Lewis, he’s still a far greater genius & will perhaps even prove to have the greater influence..

Perception of the beautiful is accompanied by that curious feeling of intellectual fullness through which we seem to be swollen with a superior knowledge of the object contemplated, and which nevertheless leaves us powerless…. to possess it by our ideas. —Jacques Maritain

Barry Lyndon (1975, Kubrick) “Observancy is a dying art. The essence of dramatic form is to let an idea come over people without it being plainly stated.” — Stanley Kubrick