Sunday, March 04, 2012
Speaking with and about God - In March, the Dominican church of St. Vincent Ferrer will present its annual lecture in honor of St. Thomas Aquinas, OP. (March 6, 2012)
Saturday, March 03, 2012
Friday, March 02, 2012
DSPT Fellow - Barbara Elliott's Presentation on Catholic Imagination and Contemporary Culture
Via The Imaginative Conservative:
Imagine That by Tony M. (on Anthony Esolen's Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child)
DSPT Fellow - Barbara Elliott's Presentation on Catholic Imagination and Contemporary Culture from DSPT on Vimeo.
Imagine That by Tony M. (on Anthony Esolen's Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child)
Thursday, March 01, 2012
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
I think this is the movie about which DN informed me a while back: Fetih 1453 (wiki). It was just released this month?
official website
Apparently a movie glorifying the Ottoman conquest of the imperial city.
An Orthodox alternative?
From 2010: The text of the film “The fall of an empire—the Lesson of Byzantium”
A Byzantine Warning.
On the new documentary film, The Fall of an Empire—the Lesson of Byzantium
An Interview with Archimandrite Tikhon Shevkunov on “The Fall of an Empire: The Lesson of Byzantium”
official website
Apparently a movie glorifying the Ottoman conquest of the imperial city.
An Orthodox alternative?
From 2010: The text of the film “The fall of an empire—the Lesson of Byzantium”
A Byzantine Warning.
On the new documentary film, The Fall of an Empire—the Lesson of Byzantium
An Interview with Archimandrite Tikhon Shevkunov on “The Fall of an Empire: The Lesson of Byzantium”
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Mirror of Justice: Hittinger on Maritain's Scholasticism and Politics - Scholasticism and Political Freedom (mp3).
Monday, February 27, 2012
James Chastek's appraisal of Aristotle's natural science: Note on Aristotle’s Physics
How can metaphysics then be a science rather than tentative opinion?
I wouldn't be so quick to jettison Aristotelian physics in favor of the reasonings of contemporary physicists, but it deserves a longer and better defense than I can give at the moment.
How can metaphysics then be a science rather than tentative opinion?
But in turning to the Physics in search of such truths, all one finds is a series of conclusions that are either false or of no value, and by “of no value” I mean the term as Aristotle himself used it: “definitions which do not enable us to discover the derived properties, or which fail to facilitate even a conjecture about them, must obviously be… futile (De anima, I:1)” If the value of definitions is from the power they give us to derive new properties and facilitate conjecture, then we must admit the truth of any number of things that nullify the supposed truth of common experience. For example, it is more valuable to identify rest and motion (as happens in inertia) or magnitude and time (as happens in Relativity). Again, we should affirm that things with no parts can move (Like electrons. The premise is not inconsequential – it grounds Aristotle’s proof for the existence of God) and we should deny that anything in motion needs a subject of notion (a light wave is not some thing waving – like aether) and that, as a consequence to this, magnitude is not the foundation of physical things, that is, a sort of substrate that supports all activity.
I wouldn't be so quick to jettison Aristotelian physics in favor of the reasonings of contemporary physicists, but it deserves a longer and better defense than I can give at the moment.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
TEDxMileHighSalon - Michael Huemer - The Irrationality of Politics
Labels:
emotions,
ethics,
moral agency,
politike,
practical reason,
psychology
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