Message from David Alexander: I would like to propose that we read Beyond Radical Secularism by Pierre Manent and do so on the following schedule: […]
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Greek Discovery of Mind, Socrates, notes
Socrates The intrusion of the systematic exigence into the realm of common sense is beautifully illustrated by Plato’s early dialogues. Socrates would ask for the […]
Manent, The City of Man, Ch. 4, pp. 137-155, Parts 15-23
15 Locke does not deny that man has an essence or a substance but claims, in fact, that it is unknowable. Man’s being is […]
Manent, The City of Man, Ch. 4, pp. 126-137, Parts 8 – 14
8 John Locke agrees that man is different from the animals, distinguished by his power of abstracting. It is only that we do not know […]
Pierre Manent’s City of Man, chapter 4, notes
Notes on Manent’s The City of Man, Chapter IV: The Hidden Man 1 Manent has described thus far the three major spheres in modern man’s […]
Greek Discovery of Mind, the Sophists, notes
Philosophies of Man The Sophists were the next group of philosophers although they were not really philosophers as such since they are better described as […]
Pierre Manent’s City of Man, ch. 3, Notes
Notes on Manent’s The City of Man, Chapter III, “The Economic System” by David Alexander 1 Where Montesquieu cautiously established the English experience as a […]
Greek Discovery of Mind, Parmenides and Zeno, revised notes, 2nd ed.
Notes on Parmenides and Zeno Lonergan Institute for the “Good Under Construction” © 2016 Where Heraclitus emphasized process, Parmenides denied both multiplicity and motion. Though […]
Pierre Manent, City of Man, chapter 2, notes
Notes on Chapter 2 of Manent’s The City of Man “All literature, all philosophy, all history abounds with incentives to noble action, incentives which would […]
Pierre Manent’s City of Man, Notes
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