Jul
31
2020
Yet I Still Want to be a Catholic – post 15. God (but not as we used to think of h(i)r) )
In the view of science inherited from the scientific revolution that began in the seventeenth century the world...
Jul
29
2020
Yet I Still Want to be a Catholic - Post 14: Kant
Part of my aim in these posts is to persuade you that we all need to think philosophically, that the ideas of the great philosophers are not that...
Jun
24
2020
The Madonna of the Pinks
A work of especial value because it puts us into contact with a very early stage of our psychological life is Raphael’s The Madonna Of The Pinks. Here we have a picture dealing with a...
Jun
23
2020
Yet I Still Want to be a Catholic, post 13: Constraining Her to Yield Up her Secrets through the Vexations of Art.
Galileo’s science, for all that he had discovered that the moon was not made of some ethereal substance...
Jun
15
2020
Yet I Still Want to be a Catholic Post 11 (?) Galileo
To understand how it is that so many secularists and humanists have come to take the view that science and only science can tell us truth, thus trapping...
Jun
15
2020
I’m amazed at all these people who think they know more about climate than thousands of scientists who have been studying it all their lives, and are now solemnly warning us, pretty much unanimously, that the greatest horror that...
Jun
06
2020
Yet I Still Want to be a Catholic: post ? –The Irrationality of rationalists.
Most people who dismiss religion would call themselves rationalists. They think that only clear and rational thought based on reliable data can lead us to truth. ...
Jun
06
2020
I forgot my wife’s birthday this year and, perhaps almost as bad , I forgot Ludwig Wittgenstein’s on April 26th. I can’t say that taking them as a job lot I go very much for the great philosophers. Some...