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 enclosed in the opaque tautology: […]...
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 what his substance is and […]...
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 self-consciousness: History, Society and Economy. […]...
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 rhetoricians who became known 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 new authority, Adam Smith accepted […]...
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 his expression revived the myth […]...
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 be buried in black darkness […]...
Pierre Manent’s City of Man, Notes
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Pierre Manent’s Modern Liberty and Its Discontents, Summary
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Vonier’s Key to the Doctrine of the Eucharist, summary
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