Published today. Stay tuned for a C+T symposium on the book. classical liberalismDon QuixoteEconomicseric graffeminismphilosophical literaturePoliticsReligionslavery
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Zygon — Volume44, Issue1, March 2009 Elizabeth CoreyEric VoegelinGeorg SimmelGeorge SantayanaMichael OakeshottReligion
A fascinating snappy intuition-testing piece from the genuinely versatile Marc Champagne, freely available here. I do not want to argue against theism directly. I do want to argue, though, that the ‘mono’ portion of monotheism rests on nothing more than an aesthetic preference. Marc Champagnemetaphysicsphilosophy of religionReligion
For those who’ve never read that most subtle, cultivated, humane and refined of minds Michael Oakeshott’s concerns resonate as deeply as ever. For the novice, I’d recommend his mid-career Rationalism in Politics, a most elegant collection of essays. A more difficult, but for me the vital underpinning cutting across all his work, is his equally elegant and…
See Maimonides’ entry for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. The Guide for the Perplexed is freely available from the Liberty Fund. At his trial for impiety in 399 B.C., Socrates was asked how it is that the wisest person in Athens claims to be ignorant of the knowledge he seeks. His answer (Apology 23a-b) is that he…
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The theme of the unremitting nature of practical life also appears in Elizabeth Corey’s essay “The Religious Sensibility of Michael Oakeshott.” Drawing on Oakeshott’s two essays on the Tower of Babel to flesh out his critique of the perfectionism and obsession with achievement that vitiate modern life, Corey shows how Oakeshott conceived of religion as…
For those who’ve never read that most subtle, cultivated, humane and refined of minds Michael Oakeshott’s concerns resonate as deeply as ever. For the novice, I’d recommend his mid-career Rationalism in Politics, a most elegant collection of essays. A more difficult, but for me the vital underpinning cutting across all his work, is his equally elegant and…
Gianna Englert reviews the the first complete English translation of Benjamin Constant’s On Religion: Considered in Its Source, Its Forms, and Its Developments. benjamin constantfreedomGianna EnglertLiberalismPolitical philosophyReligion
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