Love and truth precede justice
James Matthew Wilson on the relationship between truth and love in Benedict XVI’s Caritas in Veritate
Persons without natures
John Milbank on the pure (if hypothetical) individual of liberalism
The religious character of medieval secular life
John Milbank on the sacred canopy of premodern Europe
Seeing the world from somewhere
Robert Spaemann on why education can’t be “objective”
Keeping “the good” in the common good
D. C. Schindler on the metaphysical character of real community
Leaders with management skills (but no virtues)
Philip Turner on viewing authority as mere conflict management
Creation’s gift to the sciences
Michael Hanby: “There is no pure method, and no science can do and indeed ever does without a metaphysics and therefore ultimately a theology.”
Imagining our selves in the image of our devices
What are we? What makes a human intelligent? What is consciousness, knowledge, learning? Ellen Ullman ponders.
Stanley Hauerwas on the modern idea of freedom
Stanley Hauerwas: “Protestant churches in America lost the ability to maintain the disciplines necessary to sustain a people capable of being an alternative to the world.”
Before and after economics
Mark Mitchell: “The ideology of economics is a way of seeing the world. It forces reality into a preconceived structure and subsequently deigns to rule this truncated world with all the authority of science.”