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In Roman Catholic Political Philosophy author James V. Schall tries to demonstrate that Roman Catholicism and political philosophy-revelation and reasonare not contradictory. It is his contention that political philosophy, the primary focus of the...

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In Roman Catholic Political Philosophy author James V. Schall tries to demonstrate that Roman Catholicism and political philosophy-revelation and reasonare not contradictory. It is his contention that political philosophy, the primary focus of the...

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How do politics and religion point to each other in a way that respects the integrity of both? Why are reason and revelation not in absolute opposition to each other? Political philosophy asks questions such as these that seem to call forth respon...

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was one of the most original minds of the twentieth century. He was a gifted journalist, essayist, biographer, poet, novelist, playwright, philosopher, debater, and defender of common sense, of Christianity, an...

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James V. Schall is a treasure of the Catholic intellectual tradition. A prolific author and essayist, Schall readily connects with his readers on sundry topics from war to friendship, philosophy, politics, and to ordinary everyday living. In his n...

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A collection of Fr. James Schalls recent essays, Political Philosophy and Revelation offers a learned, erudite, and coherent statement on the relationship between reason and revelation in the modern world. It addresses political philosophy in the ...

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The Universe We Think In arises from a tradition of realism, both philosophical and political, a universe in which the common sense understanding of things is included in our judgement about them. The scope is both vast and narrow vast because it ...

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In his final collection of essays, Father Schall explores the life of faith across a dazzling array of subjects, from Martin Luther to bioethics. With his characteristic patience, brilliance, and careful tenacity, Father Schall interrogates profou...

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A collection of ten articles analyzing the shifting relationship between religion and politics from a historical perspective. Contributors include George W. Carey, Paul Seabury, Donald W. Brandon, John W. Cooper, James V. Schall, S.J., Burton M. L...

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The engaging and inquiring mind of French philosopher Jacques Maritain reflected on subjects as varied as art and ethics, theology and psychology, and history and metaphysics. Maritain's work on the theoretical groundings of politics arose fr...

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We have books that contain collected essays, verse, and humor. What we see less often are books that contain collected interviews on various topics. Interviews have a certain outside discipline about them. The one interviewed responds to a questio...

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The essay is one of the great inventions of the human mind. It can talk about anything and everything. It can be lightsome or solemn. It can be witty or informative. Above all, it is short. It likes the passage in which Socrates told Callicles in ...

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The Latin word Docilitas in the title of this book means the willingness and capacity we have of being able to learn something we did not know. It has not the same connotation as learning, which is what happens to us when we are taught something. ...

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At its beginning, every age has been modern. We speak of pre- and post- modern ages. We are likewise tempted to identify what is most up-to-date with what is true. But to be up-to-date is to be out-of-date. If we find what is really true in any ag...

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What is real and what is noble, as well as what is deranged and wrong, can often be stated briefly. Nietzsche was famous for his succinct aphorisms and epigrams. Aquinas in one of his responses could manage to state clearly what he held to be true...

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Josef Piepers The Platonic Myths is the work of a scholar and philosopher whose search for the level of truth contained in the myths is carried out with a series of careful distinctions between the kinds of myths told by Plato. In the Platonic sto...

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Originally published: 'Uber die Platonischen Mythen. Munich: K'osel-Verlag KG, 1965.

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Hilaire Belloc was a man of many parts. Half English, half French, with an American wife, Belloc was a man who thought and traveled widely. He was the best essayist in the English language. His historical studies covered much of European history. ...

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What Does Academic Mean? focuses, in two essays, on the prospects of contemporary universities. The term academic is traced back to Platos Academy in a grove in Athens. The Academy is isolated, far away from the hustle and bustle of the city. West...

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What Does Academic Mean? focuses, in two essays, on the prospects of contemporary universities. The term academic is traced back to Platos Academy in a grove in Athens. The Academy is isolated, far away from the hustle and bustle of the city. West...

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To the ears of ceaselessly busy and ambitious modern Westerners, it will come as a shock, and perhaps as an insult, to be told that human affairs are “unserious.” But this fundamental truth is exactly what James Schall, following Plato, ...

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A Line Through the Human Heart is a book of quiet insight that enables us to look at the reality of this world, for only in this way may we come to see it as something flawed, which we can begin to repair simply by our act of acknowledging what is...

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A Line Through the Human Heart is a book of quiet insight that enables us to look at the reality of this world, for only in this way may we come to see it as something flawed, which we can begin to repair simply by our act of acknowledging what is...

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The Politics of Heaven and Hell makes an invaluable contribution to the understanding of classical, medieval, and modern political philosophy, while explaining the profound problem with modernity. Christianity freed men from the overwhelming burde...

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In The Life of the Mind, Georgetown Universitys James V. Schall takes up the task of reminding us that, as human beings, we naturally take a special delight and pleasure in simply knowing. Because we have not only bodies but also minds, we are bui...

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Seit dem Angriff auf das World Trade Center im Jahr 2001 wurde die westliche Welt durch schockierende Terroranschlÿge erschüttert, die im Namen des Islam verübt wurden. Pater James V. Schall SJ, ein renommierter politischer Philosoph, analysier...

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