Beauty, here and beyond
John F. Crosby on Dietrich von Hildebrand’s Aesthetics and his description of the mysterious signals of transcendence present in earthly beauty
Mother of all virtues
Dietrich von Hildebrand on reverence
Art as aestheticism, love as eroticism, politics as totalitarianism
Augusto Del Noce on the “technological mindset” and the loss of the sense of transcendence
The meaning of the modern eclipse of authority
Augusto Del Noce on the greatest modern reversal
Explaining the totalitarianism of disintegration
Michael Hanby complements the analysis of modernity offered by Augusto Del Noce
Insights into reality itself
Malcolm Guite on the philosophical concerns underlying Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Fuller and truer ways of being
Zena Hitz on some of the blessings of the love of learning
Unreason destroys freedom
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger on the relationship between freedom and truth
Words of truth, words of Life
Hans Urs von Balthasar on the primitive (but now largely lost) unity of theology and sanctity
The true light, which gives light to everyone
Simon Oliver on the significance of light in the rise of experimental knowledge