Right now for my free time reading I am reading Homer's The Iliad. It is a classic work that I had never read, so I thought it was about time. Is there anyone...
... about ... I've never read it! Actually, I've never read the Odyssey, either. Don't tell any of the faculty at ND! It's on my ever-growing list of books I...
Being somewhat of an afficionado of mythology (my special favorite is Norse mythology), I read the Illiad and the Odyssy during the summer between 5th and 6th...
More specifically, what is that book Measure For Measure about? ... is Norse mythology), I read the Illiad and the Odyssy during the ... Unfortunately (and...
On this side of the Atlantic, at about the same time, Orestes Brownson wrote a didactic novel like that called Charles Elwood. In a book I read, it noted the...
I was thinking about my post last night and realized the first bit, about reading the Illiad and Odyssey in the 5th grade may have come across a trifle pompous...
I've just finished volume 4 of the collected works of G.K. Chesterton, the main part of which is _What's Wrong With the World?_, my first Chesterton. Overall,...
Thanks for explaining Measure For Measure. I didn't think you sounded pompous at all when you talked about reading the Iliad and Odyssey! But then, I don't...
... <glornt@b...> wrote: . "There was only one thing that really bothered me -- his seeming enthusiasm for the French Revolution. Can anyone here put this in ...
I am now about half through one of the books I mentioned was next on my list: "Clash of Orthodoxies" by Robert George. It is proving to be a terrific book! ...
Right, George is part of a small little band of proponents of a new form of natural law, which is supposed to be reasonable without reference to faith...
Actually, I don't think you can call it a new form of natural law, but the oldest, most fundamental form--that natural law understood by Plato and Aristotle,...
... new ... anything ... I was under the impression that the "new natural law" school referred to believers in the alleged naturalistic fallacy of Hume-- ...
A bit late reply to the message on GKC and the French Revolution: Over the past year I've been pondering the themes of violence in GKC's work. There's that...
Kevin, Can you explain "participated theonomy"? I'm not familiar with the term, but it sounds like an interesting concept. Is it something like "God and human...
I'm thinking of the just war idea, that peace as simply the absence of violence is not peace; peace, to be peace, must involve justice-- and thus the most...
Many thoughts. Remember a Christian (not only Catholic, but Christian in general) is not a pacifist (as is often wrongly pointed out) but one who is peaceful....
I think you have a very good grasp on the notion. In a perfect totalitarian state there is a peace of sorts at the expense of free will, liberty, and thought....
You are correct that the new natural law theorists have argued that Aquinas doesn't fall into the naturalistic fallacy, that nature is not so much just a pure...
Participated theonomy means that the good of the human person is derived from the law ("nomos") inscribed in our very being by God. God's will is not something...
As I said, I'm not a Latin scholar of any sort--the two phrases I was getting at (what I thought was 'ius ad bellum' and 'ius in bellum') referred to justice...
Since God's will is never imposed, 'theonomy' sounds like what makes us choose good by our own free will, or as some beliefs have it, 'Divinity in your soul.'...
The fallacious concept of 'natural law' in its materialistic sense arises from the Gnostic mistaken belief that knowledge of natural phenomena leads us to a...
I misunderstood. You meant 'Jus' as in 'just.' 'Just at (to go to) war' and 'Just in (during) war.' Quite right, a just reason to fight and good conduct...
To whom it may concern, Though I am no longer a Catholic, I have newly discovered Flannery O'Connor whose Catholicism and religious belief in general is so ...
Tolstoy worked on Father Sergy for eight years, and finished it in 1898 when he was 70 years old. Reading along, I saw Tolstoy's searching was reaching...
The Notes of a Madman, written in 1883, connotes a bibliographical meaning. In a short story, with a strait forward narration, this story revealed how Tolstoy...
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