“The council focuses its attention on the world of men, the whole human family along with the sum of those realities in the midst of which it lives” (GS 2). One such reality the Council discusses in Gaudium et Spes is that of technology. There is no doubt that technology has changed profoundly the “circumstances Read more
The Problem of Technology – As Raised by Gaudium et Spes Read More »
In his notable Regensburg Address of 2006, Benedict XVI discussed the intense dehellenisation that has been taking place to philosophy and most notably theology since the Reformation. He particularly mentions Adolf von Harnack who argued that the Catholic Church represented a perversion of the original gospel message taught by Jesus as a result of the
Dehellenisation and Jewish Thought (Buber, Levinas, Derrida) in the Modern World Read More »
Edmund Husserl is a notable figure in contemporary philosophy. He is most famous for establishing the school of phenomenology, which is the philosophical study of the structures of experience and consciousness. The influence of this school from its inception in the early 20th century spread quickly throughout Europe and North America with the names of
Edmund Husserl and His Influence on the Philosophies of Edith Stein and Karol Wojtyła Read More »
“All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture”. With these words Pope John Paul II begins paragraph 51 of his encyclical Centesimus Annus. It is clear, then, that the pope sees the importance of culture in all the forms and facets of human life. Paragraph 51, however, is located in the
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There is great debate in the contemporary world whether life exists after death. Influential secular ‘thinkers’ such as Stephen Hawking or Richard Dawkins assert that no such thing is possible and lead masses to a pessimistic view of their lives. In fact, it can lead one to despair because if there is nothingness after physical
The Bible and the Church on Ensoulment and the Immortality of the Soul Read More »
There are two known views pertaining to the teachings of Thomas Aquinas on prudence in the Summa Theologiae. One is proclaimed by R.-A. Gauthier who argues that while Aquinas uses Aristotelian terminology to formulate his teachings on prudence, he does so by violently misreading Aristotle. The other common view is that Thomas’s doctrine of prudence
An Analysis of Robert C. Miner’s “Non-Aristotelian Prudence in the Prima Secundae” Read More »