Tag: Enlightenment Philosophy

Tucker to Bishop Barron: Why Go to Church If the Supernatural is Being Suppressed?

The question is blunt and entirely justified in our time: and Bishop Barron is entirely in agreement. Barron goes directly to the modern roots with its distorted definition of “reason” owing to Kant and his Enlightenment presuppositions. Whose definition of “reason” then are we talking about? Bad and evil ideas have been far more virulent in history… Read More Tucker to Bishop Barron: Why Go to Church If the Supernatural is Being Suppressed?

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Life, Death and Last Words of Jean Paul Sartre

God and Nihilism in Nietzsche and Sartre. “Nietzsche is often associated with the proclamation, “God is dead,” which does not mean the literal death of God but the collapse of traditional religious beliefs and the loss of objective values. Nietzsche critiqued traditional morality, seeing it as a product of the weak, which suppresses human potential.… Read More Life, Death and Last Words of Jean Paul Sartre

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Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen on the Philosophy of Science

Archbishop Sheen is expected to be Beatified this month. The Philosophy of Science written by Archbishop Sheen 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… Read More Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen on the Philosophy of Science

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Humanity’s New Grand Narrative – Beyond The Beatles.

A visual manifesto here for a new cultural epoch.The original 1967 album captured the 1960s fusion of art, music, Eastern mysticism, and countercultural rebellion — a “summer of love” humanism that celebrated expanded consciousness through psychedelics, creativity, and social upheaval. Replacing the Beatles with Ray Kurzweil, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Demis Hassabis signals a… Read More Humanity’s New Grand Narrative – Beyond The Beatles.

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Marx and Hegel: The Philosophy of Science —and Communism

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 at worst: the metaphysical. Metaphysics… Read More Marx and Hegel: The Philosophy of Science —and Communism

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Derrida’s Deconstructionism. Cogito Ergo Nope.

“Ever wanted to sound unbearably pretentious at dinner parties? Wondered how one French philosopher managed to make an entire career out of writing sentences no human being could understand? Curious why your literature professor keeps muttering about “the death of the author” while staring vacantly into space? Look no further than “Derrida’s Deconstruction: Tearing Texts Apart… Read More Derrida’s Deconstructionism. Cogito Ergo Nope.

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Pope John Paul II on Enlightenment Errors

“Over the years I have become more and more convinced that the ideologies of evil are profoundly rooted in the history of European philosophical thought. Here I should mention some aspects of European history, and especially its dominant cultural trends. When my encyclical on the Holy Spirit was published, there were some sharply negative reactions from… Read More Pope John Paul II on Enlightenment Errors

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The Persistence of the Ideological Totalitarian Lie

The Totalitarian Impulse Then and Now “The Ideological Lie, as Solzhenitsyn calls it, was born when modern revolutionaries replaced the age-old distinction between good and evil with the illusory distinction between progress and reaction. In the name of progress, evil was called goodness, and goodness in the form of wise restraint was labeled evil, backward, racist,… Read More The Persistence of the Ideological Totalitarian Lie

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Camille Paglia, conservatives and classical liberals

Camille Paglia: Pedophile Sex Revolutionary. Why is Camille Paglia being promoted by self-described conservatives and classical liberals? Paglia says “Contemporary gays who try to distance themselves from this issue of boy-love are in effect committing cultural suicide. They’re cutting themselves from all the highest achievements of gay men….. Because I am a woman, and therefore… Read More Camille Paglia, conservatives and classical liberals

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How Amy Coney Barrett’s close friendship could affect future of major supreme court Ed case

Recusal from case with huge implications for education could tilt scales in cause her friend spent a career defending. Linda Jacobson | The Guardian | Opinion / CC. On 30 April, the court will consider a legal question that has defined her career: can explicitly religious organizations operate charter schools? At the center of the dispute… Read More How Amy Coney Barrett’s close friendship could affect future of major supreme court Ed case

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Universities being investigated  as part of Trump campaign to end D.E.I. programs

Colin Brinkley, Associated Press. WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 50 universities are being investigated for alleged racial discrimination as part of President Donald Trump’s campaign to end diversity and equity programs that his officials say exclude white and Asian American students. The Education Department announced the new investigations on Friday, one month after issuing a… Read More Universities being investigated  as part of Trump campaign to end D.E.I. programs

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Not Enlightenment Philosophy

It is not decadent Enlightenment philosophy which brought the world prosperity but human ingenuity incrementally building on newer and newer inventions, little by little. What we do with this technology will make or destroy us. Elon Musk is not the way.

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Beethoven and the Catholic Church

And ‘Being Beethoven‘ a BBC documentary chronicling his genius, tragedies and glory. Also, Damian Thompson asks why didn’t Beethoven go to Mass? Too, How did Beethoven feel about Napoleon? And Missa Solemnis. Beethoven and the Catholic Church .By Michael De Sapio.Crisis Magazine. Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart form the great trinity… Read More Beethoven and the Catholic Church

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The paedophile party advances at the UN, thanks to the EU and USA

Who didn’t see this coming? And it’s not lowering the legal age for sacramental marriage they’re planning. “Children over the age of 14 have the right to develop sexual relationships and choose to have a sexual relationship’ with adults”. And proposed as a human “right,” parental authority here is radically undermined. “On 9 August, despite the pride… Read More The paedophile party advances at the UN, thanks to the EU and USA

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Benedict the Brave: The Regensburg Address. Islam, reason and faith.

James Day. On September 12, 2006, Pope Benedict XVI took to the dais of the University of Regensburg’s Aula Magna to offer a few “memories and reflections.” Contrary to the resulting rebukes, the 79-year-old pontiff knew exactly what he was doing. Catholic World Report Pope Benedict XVI took to the dais of the University of… Read More Benedict the Brave: The Regensburg Address. Islam, reason and faith.

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You May Know This Man

A self-identified socialist priest, Helder Pessoa Câmara (1909 – 1999) was an advocate of liberation theology. He did social and political work for  “human rights and democracy”. Câmara preached for a church closer to the disfavoured people .  But that’s only part of his lies story…(more in the video). Get the film Benedict XVI and Liberation Theology National… Read More You May Know This Man

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They appear to be Legion. Fr. Brendan Kilkoyne on Ireland’s Bambie Thug

“A perfect emblem for modern Ireland” — tho the real pagans of old [my ancestors – SH], whom she admires, would have sacrificed this one in a heartbeat “to make the crop grows”. “Bambie Ray Robinson (born 6 March 1993), known by their[a] stage name Bambie Thug, is an Irish singer-songwriter. They are known to mix numerous genres… Read More They appear to be Legion. Fr. Brendan Kilkoyne on Ireland’s Bambie Thug

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