Redeeming My Time
Matthew J. Peterson, ABD
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Should Philosophy Programs Nix Plato?

May 14th 2010

Over at Dissense.com, a site I plan on contributing to from time to time, Felix York says good riddance to Plato and other classic texts:
Modern academia exhibits a strange incongruity. The physics professor who assigns Aristotle to her students is a laughingstock, but the metaphysics professor who assigns Aristotle [...]

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Wind as Spirit and Life

July 24th 2009

And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
This passage in Genesis is often interpreted such that the movement described takes the form of a wind. In a quiet moment this evening I was listening to the wind blow through the trees. We live on top of a hill, and [...]

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Charles De Koninck on Beauty as a Transcendental

July 15th 2009

A passage in The Writings of Charles De Koninck asserts that, as opposed to animals, “in man taken purely as such, there is coextension between the object of intelligence and the object of love, since intellect grasps the mark (ratio) of the good. Indeed, the domain of intellect extends beyond the domain of love, [...]

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