Post Tagged 'hegel'

March 25, 2026

Harvey Mansfield’s Rational Control

It’s difficult to avoid terms such as “legendary” and “distinguished” when referring to Harvey Mansfield’s long career at Harvard University. Of course, his reputation is based on more than his famous resistance to grade inflation or his barbed criticisms of Harvard. Continue Reading...

February 11, 2026

Reviving the Sabbath: Man Does Not Live by Smartphones Alone

While reading Stop, in the Name of God: Why Honoring the Sabbath Will Transform Your Life one can’t help but recall Josef Pieper’s Leisure: The Basis of Culture. Written just after WWII, Pieper asked what new world the Allies would build in the ruins of the old. Continue Reading...

February 25, 2025

To Save the West, We Must Save Socrates’ Children

When considering the many woes of modern Western civilization, classicist Spencer Klavan, in How to Save the West, elaborates on the five main crises contributing to today’s decline: the crisis of reality, the body, meaning, religion, and regimes. Continue Reading...

February 05, 2010

The Professorial Struggle

Ideas have consequences. Says Paul Tillich in 1967: The anti-religious attitude of almost half of present-day mankind is rooted in this seemingly professiorial struggle between Hegel, Feuerbach, and Marx, with both of the latter coming from Hegel. Continue Reading...

April 03, 2006

Kierkegaard and Christianity

I ran across some of these tidbits over recent months that I thought worth passing along, and it’s a fitting time to do so at noon, typically the lunch hour. The first two are taken from an article by Martin J. Continue Reading...