The Pursuit of Happiness: Can We Have an Economy of Well-Being? by Carol Graham

Eudaimonia would be the answer but we already have disputes about what constitutes the good life and the its relation to the moral law...

Sandro Magister, Bologna Speaks: Tradition Is Also Made of "Ruptures"

David Boyle, Land tax vs. land redistribution

The Stewardship Economy by Julian Pratt

VoxDay: Eco on Hawking

OpStJoseph: The Spirituality of Blessed John Henry Newman (Part I)


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Oratorian? How did it diverge from that of St. Philip Neri?

Blessed are the Peacemakers
by Peter Kwasniewski

James Chastek, Notions of the Soul

The first real account we get of what the soul is – which is still firmly materialistic – is that the soul is some arrangement of parts which, of themselves, are not living. The Greeks called this the theory that the soul was a harmony, and it is still the simplest theory of the soul (though we would probably dump “harmony” in favor of something more scienecy- sounding). The theory is continually abandoned for various reasons, the simplest being that arrangement is a feature of position or place, but if all one does is change the position or place of something, it doesn’t cease to be what it is. If all there was to being alive was arrangement, then death wouldn’t change what a thing was – which would mean that a cow doesn’t cease to be a cow when it dies.

How does "arrangement" differ from the contemporary concept of "organization"?

Two critical reviews of Jesus of Nazareth

CRC
Robert Sungenis

Honor Harger: A history of the universe in sound


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Pertinacious Papist: The Political Problem of Religious Pluralism. PP republishes a review, originally published in Latin Mass Magazine, by Christopher Oleson of Thaddeus Kozinski's The Political Problem of Religious Pluralism. (archive for the review)

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A review at NDPR

Byzantine, Texas: A favorite Orientale Lumen Conference podcast - Sr. Dr. Vassa Larin.

Zenit: That I May See You
A Look at Benedict XVI's Catecheses on Christian Prayer
By Kevin M. Clarke

medievalists.net: Man and nature in the Middle Ages By Christian Rohr

A report on the Aquinas-Barth conference

Op-StJoseph: Thomas Aquinas - Karl Barth Dialogue

Pope Paul VI, Honor St. Thomas by studying his thought (via Rorate Caeli)

For those who cannot receive the Holy Eucharist under either species because of allergies, would the frequent reception of the Anointing of the Sick be a suitable or permitted alternative for fostering their sacramental life?

John Finnis on the Good of Marriage

Marriage: A Basic and Exigent Good (via Mirror of Justice)

I have something in the works on the difference between "traditional" Thomistic moral theology/philosophy and the New Natural Theology regarding human goods. I maintain that in the former, the good to which we aim or which we intend is understood [primarily or exclusively] as an activity (or action), while it is understood within the NNLT as some sort of state or quasi-habit. This has an impact on the question of whether there is a single good which constitutes human happiness (and how various goods are integrated).

One could ask whether a model of practical reason is descriptive or normative. Some features of human practical reasoning are universal -- means-ends, the relationship of human desire to a (perceived) good (even if this is denied in a particular moral theory), the nature of practical reason as being focused on human action. Some aspects are present only to those educated (or raised) within a specific tradition.

Dr. Peter Gilbert writes an apology for his blog and gives a statement about his future plans.

Ancient Faith Radio podcasts Orientale Lumen

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Daniel Tammet: Different ways of knowing


The speaker's homepage.