Laudato Si
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Laudato Si’ and Charles De Koninck
In a programmatic post on the new encyclical, John Brungardt argues that Charles De Koninck’s philosophy of nature and his anti-personalist account of the common good, both rooted in his rich understanding of the order of the whole universe as the final cause of creation, make De Koninck a particularly suitable instrument for pursuing the concerns of Laudato Si’. Continue reading
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“Technique is the metaphysic of the age”
Yuval Levin has a clever post at National Review in which he discusses three different senses of “nature” at work in Laudato Si’: Continue reading
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Some notable appreciations and critiques of Laudato Si’
Over at The Josias I defend the section of Laudato Si’ on world government, in the introduction a section of Henri Grenier neo-scholastic proof of the necessity of such an institution. At the same time, however, I wriggle out of the conclusion that the UN’s authority ought to be expanded by claiming that such a world government could only be… Continue reading
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A Magnificent, a Wonderful Encyclical
In his weird and partly brilliant book on infinity, David Foster Wallace writes, “what the modern world’s about, what it is, is science.” That is, the heart of the modernity as a project is the new science developed in the 17th century, which consists in the application of a certain kind of symbolic-calculation to nature… Continue reading
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