James Chastek, Right and violence

He quotes the CE (the new one?): "Every perfect right, i.e. every right involving in others an obligation in justice a deference thereto, to be efficacious, and consequently a real and not an illusory power, carries with it at the last appeal the subsidiary right of coercion. A perfect right, then, implies the right of physical force…"

What Happened Before the Big Bang? The New Philosophy of Cosmology

Joseph G. Trabbic interviews Raymond Dennehy on two recently republished books by Jacques Maritain: The Return of Thomistic Political Philosophy, Part I and Part II

Exaltation of youth and technological progress

Taylor Wilson: Yup, I built a nuclear fusion reactor

The Conjugal Debt and Medieval Canon Law

What is the author's ultimate point of view on Church teaching on marriage? I hesitate to read what she writes.

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Orthodoxy: The Cosmos Transfigured by Paul Evdokimov