Heracletian

Catholic, doctorate on Newman the Philosopher, Medieval thought, birds, trees, animals, university lecturer, Sydney ...

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@FeserEdward De Ente et Essentia is the perfect compact jewel of an explanation here and for much else.

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@zelda928093 A great man and priest. I knew him from the Beda and his winsome missives since. May God rest his soul.

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@michael_merrick You’d pay the same here in Glasgow’s West End.

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@SandyofCthulhu The story of Simone Weil, who volunteered in the Spanish Civil War but whose eyesight was so impaired that she was discouraged from using a machine gun...

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Scenes from Glasgow's Botanic Gardens on a cold but bright day ...

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@johnmilbank3 I also think people like Russell and Hume are apt to sway minds because of their pleasing style which covers for the frequent inadequacy of their philosophical treatments and their recourse to superficial etiological remedies.

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For anyone interested in +Newman's apologetics and his uneasiness with the standard Christian Evidences, have a glance at this early online print:

John Henry Newman and the Existence of God | New Blackfriars | Cambridge Core

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Out along the Kelvin Way today as far as Dawsholm Park ... took a picture at the little red bridge.

'This darksome burn, horseback brown,
His rollrock highroad roaring down'

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@catrionaduggan I was out running there just now - must have missed you!

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@afneil Yes, it's pretty parky. I was out for a run along the Kelvin Way and then along the Forth and Clyde towpath. Your old place is my current place of work - a privilege.

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With my rough French and the help of Google Translate, I am reading chapters from La Guerre d'Algérie, 1954-2004, La Fin de 'Amnésie. The unfolding story is astonishing.

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It's a cold, bright day in Glasgow and here's a scene from the Botanic Gardens

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@CatholicNewsSvc 'from first to last, education … has been my line'

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@holland_tom St John Henry Newman on recollecting his childhood home ...

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This simply depresses me. Litter chucked under a seat when there's a bin right beside. And yes I cleared it up.

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@BeardyHowse Sounds pretty stultissime to me...

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@DrFrancisYoung I would love a translation of Ockham's Summa Logicae.

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@prayandfast2 I would be interested in the source for that citation,

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@CapelLofft Reminds me of William James in *Will to Believe*:
'Religious thinking, ethical thinking, poetical thinking, teleological, emotional, sentimental thinking ... have been, and even still are, outside of well-drilled scientific circles, the dominant forms of thought.'