Dostoevsky on Descartes
For this semester I’ll offer my reflections on an introductory, freshmen-level course on western core texts that I am teaching. Earlier in the semester we had read…
First Impressions and Ideas
For this semester I’ll offer my reflections on an introductory, freshmen-level course on western core texts that I am teaching. This past week we read excerpts from…
Descartes and the “Engine Heart”
There is perhaps no greater proof that Marxism has become a dominant culture than our commonly shared history views. Because most of us living in the West…
Descartes’ Discovery of the Subject
“Philosophy starts by doubting the reality of the perceptible world, of the world of objects and things.”[1] But this is not enough. Philosophical theory should be primarily…
The Subversiveness of Desire: Descartes, Hobbes, and the Suppression of the Erotic in Modern Thought
While images of philosophers floating among the clouds, untethered from real-world concerns, or falling into wells while gazing at the stars, having allowed their abstract speculations to…
From the Multiversity Cave: The Universal Sciences
In the previous essay I examined how Renaissance Humanism and the religious reformations can contribute to improving the multiversity as an institution that promotes the public good…
The Postmodern Subject
In the previous chapter, McGuire illuminates how Voegelin’s analysis of Aristotle shows that ethics and politics are to be based on one’s noetic participation in an nonobjective,…
Shaken by Nominalism: The Theological Origins of Modernity
The Theological Origins of Modernity. Michael Allen Gillespie. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. One of the most substantial contributions to the discussion about the nature…
Sartre’s Facticity of Existence and the Cartesian Deformation
Well, existence is not a fact. If anything, existence is the nonfact of a disturbing movement in the In-Between of ignorance and knowledge, of time and timelessness, of…