A new series begins...
"In opening Bonaventure’s Itinerarium, as in all the great classics of the genre, we find ourselves confronted not with the spiritual journey of a particular pilgrim but the universal odyssey of Soul."
Yes
That's just Opus Dei
Excellent, for sure. But accessible? Not sure... it's pretty dense! We're doing a reading group here at Assumption soon. It may also depend on which edition as they are substantively different.
I dreamed that I was back at Hillsdale College for an Honors Program annual retreat and they had Jamelle Bouie as one of the professors.
That was Jim Stephens and George Angell
Damn I forgot the Rhetorical Psychoanalysis of Paul
- an independent study on Balthasar's Barth book
- Interstellar Travel
- A course entirely about the movie My Dinner With Andre
- Epicureanism
- Weightlifting
bars
I'm the weird person who agrees with the second tweet here but not the first.
Welcome, it's a good age to be.
My latest: substacktools.com/sharex/0cKSx...
My latest post:
We get clear on Plato’s so-called “unwritten doctrines,” which Aristotle will revise and perfect.
We also learn how Plato’s commitment to idealism and the status of myth in his corpus.
open.substack.com/pub/awildlog...
Aristotle is a speculative thinker of the highest caliber. I reflect here on the obstacles that prevent us from appreciating the depth of his thinking
He need not be seen in theological, mystical, and speculative circles as Plato’s junior colleague.
Baby's first Know Your Enemy episode. Well, actually, we're wondering if he recognizes Sam and Matt's voices from in utero
Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
If you are in Boston for AAR 2025, consider attending my paper in the Plato and Platonisms unit. That is, if Sarah has not given birth by then (it's just 3 days before the due date)!
Monday, November 24th 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM | Sheraton, Arnold Arboretum (Fifth Floor)
The Other Journal? IDK it's a bleak landscape
I have her book Babel and given my genre interests was hoping against my doubts it would be good. We will see, but this seems like a nay vote.
Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
The problem is that the Enlightenment, in its abstraction, is so allergic to dependence and mediation that it cannot pass through this initial moment.
I think that the goal of the Gospel of John is to overcome or sublate our relationship of dependence on God. Christ is a "vanishing mediator" upon whom we are initially dependent as something external but who wishes to become internal, at which point Enlightenment autonomy and independence occur.
BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Got my first email from a student who has a parent being deported. It's bad out there.
Always has been
I'm working on some jokes about this album and second temple mysticism
In Hudson, MA (population ~20,000) the No Kings crowd was 750+.
Visited my favorite bookstore again (Commonwealth Books in Newport)
