Category: Metaphysics

Reflections on Writing and Scholarship by an Autodidact, Joseph Pearce

By Joseph Pearce | February 13th, An interview by The Imaginative Conservative Joseph Pearce recently answered questions from students at Benedictine College about his career as a writer and scholar. Firstly, how do you go about choosing a subject for your non-fiction writings? In almost all cases, I was motivated to write on a particular subject… Read More Reflections on Writing and Scholarship by an Autodidact, Joseph Pearce

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Trent Horn on the Emptiness of Political Christianity

Trent takes on the empty absurdities on the other end of the ideological spectrum in so-called “political Christianity.” One good example of “junk” liberal Christianity can be found in a 2019 New York Times interview with Serene Jones, a Protestant minister and president of Union Theological Seminary. Here are a few of her “deepities”: “[The] empty tomb… Read More Trent Horn on the Emptiness of Political Christianity

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Marx and Hegel: The Philosophy of Communism

And the philosophy of science. The Philosophy of Science challenges a fundamental facet of the modern outlook: that science as such can answer ultimate questions about ourselves, the universe, and God. Disdaining mere discussion or mordant criticism of purely scientific conclusions, Sheen opens science to a realm of thought commonly diminished at best and denigrated… Read More Marx and Hegel: The Philosophy of Communism

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Localism — or what?

What good is “progress” in the wrong direction Chesterton asked. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates… The Jetsons fantasy. After Oppenheimer? Really? But, the Progressives retort, it’s only crazy reactionaries who oppose Penicillin —or Planned Parenthood (as if these were morally equivalent) who oppose Progress. No specious rationalization can justify R&D technology for… Read More Localism — or what?

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Heidegger in Ruins

There is scarcely a Catholic philospher (of the Left especially) who does not consider the Catholic apostate Martin Heidegger a brilliant philospher whose teachings in no small way show us the way out of the restraints of biblical literalism and philosophical realism (in other words, the Christian revelation of God in Christ Jesus, the Incarnation),… Read More Heidegger in Ruins

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