The End of an Era
He reminded me that our greatest accomplishments are the friendships we have forged in our embattled years.
Catholicism, (homo)eros, and everthing else
He reminded me that our greatest accomplishments are the friendships we have forged in our embattled years.
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Coming to law school has made me particularly glad that I decided to major in philosophy. In many ways, I’veContinue Reading
“… and old principles reappear under new forms. It [a great idea] changes with them in order to remain the same. In a higher world it is otherwise, but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.” So goes the argument of Blessed John Henry Newman’s Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine. Like any great idea, doctrine must change in order to remain the same. Only dead doctrine cannot change, for “a power of development is a proof of life.”
The following is an essay printed in the May 26, 1877 edition of Notre Dame’s Scholastic Magazine. It is well worthContinue Reading
In November 2010, I presented a paper for the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture’s annual Fall Conference. AfterContinue Reading
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In the most recent edition of the Irish Rover (Sept. 13, 2012), Jim Sterba, professor of philosophy at Notre Dame,Continue Reading