Interesting times. Why now? What happened? Is this just random good luck, PR, or something else? “Not only is it uncommon to see the future (and, in many eyes, currently the effective) ruler of Saudi Arabia sitting beneath a huge icon of Jesus and looking quite happy to be there, but St. Mark’s was the…
My Dear Family & Friends, I respectfully ask that you consider treating yourself during this holy season of Lent. A Lenten Mission will be guided by Padre Martin Scott at Blessed Sacrament Parish. Padre Martin Scott will be in San Antonio March 5-7. I have posted a flyer, which has contact information and pertinent details….
“Like the poor, the Pre-Socratics will always be with us,” Fr. Lawrence Dewan O.P.+ To be ordered, there must be a difference between before and after. If everything is the same, then one cannot have order. A proto-philosophical attitude is to wonder at the cause of the differences, and to ask why. The answer to…
Plato, The Sophist 246a-c (trans. Eva Brann, et al.) Plato took to be the fundamental contours of philosophizing in the ancient world. The Battle of the Gods and Giants Stranger: And it does seem that among them there is a sort of Battle of the Gods and Giants, because of the dispute they have with…
Stated briefly, the four guideposts are: 1. Creation metaphysics; 2. Hylomorphic anthropology; 3. Realistic epistemology; and 4. Objective ethics. I did not originate these four categories but have found them to be very accurate and insightful. These guideposts help us to understand ‘why things are the way they are’. Equally helpful, these signs help us…
A journey needs two fundamental pieces of information to be successful: a destination (telos) and a route. In the case of philosophy, the destination is wisdom or truth, with happiness being a by-product. The route is harder to determine. Many famous thinkers since the first philosopher, Thales, have used different paths and arrived at different…