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Modern Western man is in need of an examination of conscience.For centuries, he has been willfully disintegrating his own understanding of reality in an act that might be described as one of intellectual self-sabotage. He has abandoned the tr
In the face of even unbearable stupidity and evil, the contemplative path retains an essential relationship to truth before any accidental or derivative considerations.Civilization ultimately rests not upon the transient, but rather upon the
What on earth has happened to 'good disagreement'? Where has it gone? On the proper end of disagreement and the present crisis in thinking in the West.
On the need of common sense, as a counter to ideology and the groundless thinking of our time. Reflections inspired by Samuel Johnson, C.S. Lewis, and G.K. Chesterton.
For modern man, the all-too-often shunned option of living in truth, in the sense of engaging reality, rather than fleeing from it into his own ideas, offers a choice that amounts to a desperately needed conversion in a profound philosophical s
A meditation on the modern rejection of transcendence. Consideration of Nietzschean nihilism, and the rash judgment of the present generation. Belloc, not Nietzsche, was correct about the trajectory of modern thinking and civilization. On the n
The rejection of objective truth leads to tyranny. The modern reduction of ontology has left Western thought dangerously adrift.
Consideration of reason in relation to common sense, sanity, and the intellect, with the aim of addressing intellectual maladies of the present generation.
The tenuous relationship to truth in modern thought, considered in relation to the lack of moral courage in the present age.
Prudence helps one to maintain sobriety and sanity in the face of "scientism" and other ideological nonsense. Tradition, with its focus on the permanent things and on the eternal dimension of being, allows us to maintain thinking itself in the
Sober pessimism is our defense against the extremes of both despair and the folly of utopian thought.
On the importance of contemplation and the cultivation of virtue in an age that encourages neither. And how this relates to tradition and the canon.
We cannot deny the radical secularism with which we are surrounded. But we should defy it.
Relativism is not "freedom," but quickly descends instead into tyranny and barbarism.
We must choose between faith and the world, but this is not to be mistaken as a choice between faith and philosophy. Not at all.
Greetings and welcome to Wholly Orders, a poetic and philosophical exploration of tradition.
A meditation on the leap of faith as a poetic response to the ineffable ground of being. Faith relates to reason much as poetry to prose.This episode is the second in what will be a three-part discussion on faith. The previous part is found her
The leap of faith as a disposition toward being, vs scientific or ideological reductionism. A meditation on “small answers,” wholeness, and the credo.I Small AnswersSmall answers are tied to questions that the large answers cannot see.We begin
I respond to those who would like me to talk only about poetry and philosophy, not about Catholicism. References: Les Murray, T.S. Eliot, Christopher Dawson, Nicolás Gómez DávilaI “Poetry is Catholic, Poetry is Presence” – Les MurrayI reflect o
The second in a two-part discussion critical of ideology. I discuss a personal metanoia that helped me to overcome ideological thinking.The first part of this discussion is here: Against Ideology, Part 1: Ideology vs Philosophy (S2E6)How a pers
The first in a two-part discussion critical of ideology as inadequate to the tasks of philosophy. Ideology is a false substitute for philosophy.The second part of this discussion is here: Against Ideology, Part 2: My Personal Metanoia (S2E7)I R
Second in a two-part meditation on the relationship of the poetic, the sacred, & Enlightenment. References: Hopkins, Sherrard, Raine, and Blake.The first part is here.I A Meditation on HellWe start with Hopkins’ “Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves.” Thi
The first in a two-part meditation on the poetic, the sacred, and the Enlightenment. With references to William Blake and Nicolás Gómez Dávila.The second part of this discussion is here.I Approaching the SacredI begin with Blake’s first lines o
In this episode I read afresh the talk that I gave at Harvard Divinity School on 3 November 2018. The title of the talk was “Recovering Poetic Vision in a Technological Age.”This talk I gave as part of the proceedings of the inaugural Sound Edu
This is the second in a two-part introduction to season two. After addressing the loss of mystery, I clarify my position on ideology.Those who follow sacred tradition, and love the mystery, have no desire to immanentize the eschaton.I Lost Ways
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