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Category Archives: Religion and Philosophy
The way of men – pagan and Christian
Late last year I re-read Jack Donovan’s The Way of Men, written for identifying what it means to be a man, and what men need and want. Donovan argues that men are largely driven by the need for the respect … Continue reading
Posted in Religion and Philosophy, Reviews, Society and Culture
Tagged Christianity, Of Boys and Men
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Selected quotes from Anti-Politics
“Power and authority, as substitutes for performance and rational thought, are the specters that haunt the world today. They are the ghosts of awed and superstitious yesterdays. And politics is their familiar. Politics, throughout time, has been an institutionalized denial … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, quotations, Religion and Philosophy
Tagged anarchism, quotations
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Selections from The Unbroken Thread
“The great benefit to be derived from reading pre-modern authors is to come to realise that after all we [moderns] might have been mistaken.” – C.F.J. Martin [C.S. Lewis] argued that instinct, science’s go-to answer to our central question, just … Continue reading
The Philosopher Book Tag
Spotted at Thoughts on Papyrus, and couldn’t resist borrowing! Thales is considered the first known philosopher. Which text introduced you to philosophy or which text would you like to read to get you into philosophy? Oddly enough, a sermon from … Continue reading
The Virtue of Selfishness
The Virtue of Selfishness© 1964 Ayn Rand174 pages How many books and movies have moved audiences by portraying a character who, struggling with persistent unhappiness, is pushed by their despair through to the realization that they’ve been living their life … Continue reading
Return of the Primitive
Return of the Primitive© 1971 Ayn Rand, The New Left© 1999 Ayn Rand and Peter Schwartz290 pages The Return of the Primitive collects Ayn Rand’s written responses to the eruption of the student movement in the late sixties, particularly … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Religion and Philosophy, Reviews
Tagged 1960s, 1970s, Ayn Rand, Objectivism, philosophy
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Three cheers for anarchy — three reads, anyway
While everyone else was honoring dead soldiers by buying things, shooting off fireworks (dear neighbors: why?), and grilling out, I was in bed all weekend with a case of food poisoning. Naturally, I wound up reading books about anarchism and … Continue reading
Beyond Tenebrae
Beyond Tenebrae: Christian Humanism in the Twilight of the West© 2019 Brad Birzer258 pages Most people, including myself until a few years ago, would describe humanism as a worldview championing the possibility of, and the need for, humans living moral, … Continue reading
Posted in Classics and Literary, Religion and Philosophy, Reviews
Tagged Brad Birzer, Christian humanism, Christianity, conservative
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Camino Winds | Jesus the Son of Man
Amid a category 4 hurricane that levels homes and floods an entire town, a man is murdered. The police shake their heads, insisting he was merely struck by storm debris. But falling limbs don’t leave blood splatter inside a home … Continue reading
Posted in Religion and Philosophy, Reviews
Tagged Florida, Jesus, John Grisham, Kahlil Gibran, poetry, wisdom literature
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Selections from Beyond Tenebrae
For Marx, man is at heart economic. For Darwin, man is biological. For Freud, man is psychological. Each of these things is true. But man—a complexity and mystery even to himself—is all of these things and so much more. True … Continue reading
Posted in General, quotations, Religion and Philosophy
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