The Falcon
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Robert Bellah’s Religion in Human Evolution
Robert Bellah’s Religion in Human Evolution is an immensely learned and informative book, from which I learned much. It is, however, in the tradition of those thinkers since Kant who have defended the truth of religion by redefining “truth.” Bellah’s redefinition of truth is quite different from Kant’s; he owes much to William James’s pragmatism,… Continue reading
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The New Natural Law Theory
A paper of mine on the New Natural Law Theory of Germain Grizez, et al. has been posted at The Josias. It’s an English version of a paper that has just been published in Spanish in a volume edited by the great Catholic jurist Miguel Ayuso. Continue reading
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“A relaxed imperial Catholic integralism, mit Schlag”
Over at Theopolis, Susannah Black Roberts has a nice reflection on the Austrian empire, attempting to “read” the cityscapes of Vienna and other cities once under Habsburg rule—she mentions the peculiar feel that cities such as Trieste, and Ljubljana and Varaždin and Zagreb have. (Trieste seems to me a slightly special case, because of the… Continue reading
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A Note on Political Theology
“Political theology” is a somewhat ambiguous term. Carl Schmitt means by it that apparently secular political terms (and their relations) are really based on theological analogies. To fully understand the conceptualization of (for example) the relation of sovereign and the people, and how it shifted over time, one has to understand the theological analogy behind the… Continue reading
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Is Integralism Conservative?
Over at The Josias I consider whether integralism is conservative. In the spirit of the scholastic disputation I neither simply affirm nor deny, but distinguish: in a way yes, and in a way no. Continue reading
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Comment on David Bollier’s “The Commonsverse as a Parallel Polis”
I gave the following remarks at a workshop in Berlin at the beginning of the summer. I was very pleased to see that on the poster for our conference the organizers chose to feature a map of the Cistercian Abbey of Neuzelle quite near here in Lower Lusatia. The history of the Abbey of Neuzelle… Continue reading
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New Essay on the Primacy of the Common Good
Over at The Josias I have a new essay, “The Primacy of the Common Good,” which synthesizes much of my thought on that topic as it has developed since I last attempted a synthesis. There are few books that have had more influence on my thinking than Charles De Koninck’s On the Primacy of the… Continue reading