On Human Nature
All ideas of a purely “immanent” human nature are based on a philosophical oversight: the failure to recognize that affirmation of an “immanent reality” has metaphysical meaning…
On the World of Space and Time
Discovery of the transcendence of ultimate reality—whether undesrtood as Tao, Brahman, Yahweh, Logos, or in another fashion—alters how the “world,” initially experienced as the cosmos, comes to…
The Fragility of Consciousness: Faith, Reason, and the Human Good
The Fragility of Consciousness: Faith, Reason, and the Human Good. Frederick G. Lawrence. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. 4 This collection of essays offers both…
The Spiritual in Poetry and Art
A More Beautiful Question: The Spiritual in Poetry and Art. Glenn Hughes. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2011. Concerned with how art, and especially poetry,…
Grounded in Compassionate Love: Aristotle, Lonergan, and Nussbaum
Love and Objectivity in Virtue Ethics: Aristotle, Lonergan, and Nussbaum on Emotions and Moral Insight. Robert J. Fitterer. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. Reviewing books…
Lonergan and Historiography
The Pitfalls of Attempting Psychohistory Perhaps of all the fields in the history of thought, psychohistory is the most controversial, the least developed, the least settled, and…
Self-Appropriation in Lonergan and Voegelin
What does it mean to appropriate the self? Is the self somehow a "something" that can be "appropriated"? Is this mysterious appropriation something added on to the…
Lonergan and Voegelin: Religious Experience and Historicity Religious Experience
A Dramatic Encounter In the spring of 1976 at the University of Washington, Eric Voegelin presented a series of lectures and discussions on the topic of “Dogmatism…
Voegelin’s Noetic Science
Aristotle, Voegelin, and the Philosophy of Consciousness Perhaps more than any other philosopher in the twentieth century, Eric Voegelin has offered a philosophy of consciousness that parallels…
Human Emergence as Cosmic Metaxy
Michael Ruse, who has written extensively on evolution and philosophical issues, noted a few years ago that “Unfortunately, there is simply nothing in the literature by philosophers…