40 days ago by Lee Faber

From L. M. de Rijk. Scholasticism is an “approach, which is characterized by the use, in both study and teaching, of a constantly recurring system of concepts, distinctions, proposition analyses, argumentative techniques and disputational methods.” [i] [i] L.M. de Rijk, Middeleeuwse wijsbegeerte: Tr ...

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58 days ago by Michael Sullivan

The other day I mentioned that I'd been reading Armand Maurer's The Philosophy of William of Ockham in the Light of Its Principles. I picked it up last week and have read about a third of it so far. Now, Maurer's book isn't a replacement for or a competitor to Marilyn Adams' William Ockham, which mu ...

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59 days ago by Adam

Well, I’ll admit I like this one: Laurie Ann Farrell, Executive Director of Exhibitions at SCAD put Two by Four in her 19 piece online exhibit drawn from the 1,552 (according to the site artist entries). In general, I find the individual curation to be far better than the jury panel. I do think that ...

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92 days ago by Christopher

click Two key paragraphs: The Fed fails to grasp that an interest rate is a price—the price of time—and that attempting to manipulate that price is as destructive as any other government price control. It fails to see that the price of housing was artificially inflated through the Fed's monetary pum ...

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107 days ago by Simple Mind Zen

"The general idea prevailing about Kundalini, both in the East and in the West, is of a fabulous power... lying dormant, waiting to be roused..." --The Secret of Yoga by Gopi Krishna When the subject turns from more commonly known Western ideas present in Judeo-Christian mysticism such as Incarnatio ...

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118 days ago by jhbowden

Roger Ariew, Descartes and the Last Scholastics (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999) Germans of the seventeenth century made a discovery that the rest of the world had to wait until the twentieth century to make, namely, that Descartes himself was a good Aristotelian scholastic. – L.W. Beck, Ear ...

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134 days ago by Shawn Wamsley

Publishers have defiled the work of at least two of my favorite authors, and I am sure there are more to come. What is the dubious nature of these putrescent literary obscenities? End Notes. There is a disturbing trend in which even books that are geared toward educated readers are being published w ...

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134 days ago by Shawn Wamsley

Publishers have defiled the work of at least two of my favorite authors, and I am sure there are more to come. What is the dubious nature of these putrescent literary obscenities? End Notes. There is a disturbing trend in which even books that are geared toward educated readers are being published w ...

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134 days ago by Matt Blank

medieval: Fourteenth century image of a school. Even in the 1300s students napped, talked, and surfed tvmblr on their laptops vellums.

154 days ago by Laurence O'Donnell

Introduction to Reformed Scholasticism by Willem J. van Asselt with contributions by T. Theo J. Pleizier, Pieter L. Rouwendal, and Maarten Wisse. Translated by Albert Gootjes. Grand Rapids: Reformation Heritage Books, 2011. Pp. xiv + 263. $25.00 paper. Preview the contents, Richard Muller’s forward, ...

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