McArthur
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The Generation of Substantial Form
In On Animal Generation William Harvey argues that the cock and the hen can only be instrumental causes of the generation of the chick, since the perfection of the chick seems to be the work of an intelligence that they simply do not possess: Continue reading
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Integralism
If patriotism and love of liberty are beautiful things when well ordered, they are remarkably ugly when disordered. John Brungardt has asked me to respond to a particularly outrageous example of disordered love of liberty from John Zmirak. Zmirak attacks what he calls “illiberal Catholicism” — a name which he applies to (among others) Michael Baxter (for… Continue reading
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Ronald McArthur and Authentic Catholic Integralism
When Dr. Ronald McAthur, the founding president of Thomas Aquinas College, died three weeks ago, one of my fellow TAC alumni quoted Shakespeare: His life was gentle, and the elements So mix’d in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, “This was a man!” That, it seems to me, is… Continue reading
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