Category Archives: Identity Development

Identity & Personhood In Ancient Rome: The Specificity Of Christian Ethics vs. The Eros Of Selfish Property

Posted on November 28, 2011 by

This blog has dealt sufficiently with the concept of ‘The Specificity of Christian Ethics’ at great length, it cannot be ignored how secular life itself is a perversion of Christianity.  This insight will move into greater relief as the West … Continue reading →

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James Joyce: The Irish Modernist

Posted on November 22, 2011 by

Only someone with a classical education can understand what motivated James Joyce, for the modernist within him resisted any neat clarification.  Perhaps Samuel Becket alone was capable of residing in a world inhabited by Joyce.  How else to say it: … Continue reading →

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How The Secular World Began

Posted on September 26, 2011 by

Just as contemporary historians and philosophers are finally beginning to ride astride the findings of Catholic theologians on distinguishing variable modes of the Enlightenment (Hans Urs von Balthasar, John Courtney Murray, Henri De Lubac and Gertrud Himmelfard) all come to … Continue reading →

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American Colossus

Posted on September 17, 2011 by

“Gentleman, you have undertaken to cheat me.  I won’t sue you for the law takes too long.  I will ruin you.”   Cornelius Vanderbilt 1890. When Vanderbilt left America for business in South America, his business partners began exploiting his … Continue reading →

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Team Obama & The Uses Of White Guilt

Posted on September 8, 2011 by

Shelby Steele is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in Palo Alto California, he remains the most significant intellectual on American race relations since Lincoln.  Period. His book titled ‘White Guilt’ exposes how the intellectual vacuity … Continue reading →

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What Has Athens To Do With Jerusalem?

Posted on August 14, 2011 by

The North African Catholic Church throughout the last remaining centuries before the fall of Rome was the most fertile intellectual region before the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787.  I don’t say that in a cavalier way, for the Church … Continue reading →

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Alexis de Tocqueville: Letters Home & Gustave de Beaumont Travel Diaries

Posted on August 14, 2011 by

This blog has tackled the subject of Alexis de Tocqueville extensively.  I mention him because a handful of American scholars have finally decided to tackle what our American Founders and Framers instinctively understood:  the American Revolution would succeed and be … Continue reading →

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The Morality Of Political Realism: Fortitude For The American Imperium

Posted on August 14, 2011 by

What are we witnessing in the political and therefore spiritual morass that is a craven European Union, especially geopolitically and strategically?  ”Idealism” is a tough sell in American Foreign Policy, but most often it has been alloyed to the social … Continue reading →

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Aristotle, Plato: Grand Theft Auto

Posted on August 12, 2011 by

The last week of June 2011 witnessed the American Supreme Court hear arguments from  Brown vs. Entertainment Merchants.  This was a case involving whether a State or for that matter any political authority, can regulate video games. The majority opinion … Continue reading →

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Sex & The City: The Social and Political Impact Of Militant Feminism

Posted on August 12, 2011 by

I was always dismayed when people use any kind of moral equivalency.  An example is the ‘Wall of Apartheid’ (originally coined by Jimmy Carter) throughout the West Bank in Israel.  Anyone with even a modicum of knowledge of the politics … Continue reading →

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