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From the Editorial Introduction:This first issue of Reality—The Philosophy of Realism—like most publications and especially those of a collaborative effort, signifies innumerable hours of effort. The goal of our journal is simple: to reinvigorate an intelligent discussion about realism as a philosophical approach. By a realist approach, we mean not…Continue reading “Latest Issue”

14May 202114 May 2021

[Article] On the Cenoscopic and the Idioscopic

And Why They Matter[1] Fr. Scott Randall PaineProfessor of PhilosophyUniversity of Brasilia, Brazilhttps://3wisdoms.com ABSTRACT: We are accustomed to viewing polarities…

11Dec 202011 Dec 2020

[Article] How To Be a Contemporary Thomist: The Case of Marshall McLuhan

Adam Pugen, PhDUniversity of TorontoInstitute of Communication, Culture,Information and Technology ABSTRACT: The provocative nature of both the form and content,…

25Aug 202025 Aug 2020

[Essay] Civic Life and Home

The Paradox of Political Philosophy Brian Jones, PhD CandidateUniversity of St. Thomas, Houston TX Commentators across the political spectrum have…

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[Essay] Tradition of Questioning

A challenge to Thomists at the Digital Crossroads Brian Kemple, PhDExecutive EditorReality Nearly a quarter of the way through the twenty-first century, we Thomists and those of similar intellectual pedigree…

[Essay] Make Disciples of All Nations

9 Jul 202025 Aug 2020

Response to Plaza's Review of Integralism. Alan Fimister St. John Vianney Theological Seminary Denver, CO In a recent review in this journal, the book Integralism: A Manual of Political Philosophy…

[Book Review] Integralism

3 Jul 202014 May 2021

A review of and response to Thomas Crean, OP and Alan Fimister’s Integralism: A Manual of Political Philosophy (Haverton, PA: Eurospan | Editiones Scholasticae, 2020). An Apologia for Catholic Democracy…

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[Essay] The Conflict between Human Dignity and Abortion – Part II

10 Jun 20202 Jul 2020

Francisco E. Plaza, PhD Candidate University of St. Thomas, Houston TX Editor, Reality The following is part II of II. See Part I here. In the encyclical Evangelium vitae,…

[Article] Was Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange a Personalist?

20 Mar 202020 Mar 2020

A Rapprochement Between the Individual-Person Distinction and the Primacy of the Common Good Contra Maritain’s Personalism[1] Taylor Patrick O’Neill Assistant Professor of Theology Mount Mercy University Cedar Rapids, IA ABSTRACT:…

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[Essay] The Roots of Human Dignity & its Modern Dissolution – Part I

19 Mar 202030 Jun 2020

Francisco E. Plaza, PhD Candidate University of St. Thomas, Houston TX Editor, Reality The following is part I of II. See Part II here. As modern secularism strives to…

Issues

[Issue] The Philosophy of Realism

4 Mar 20208 Mar 2020

From the Editorial Introduction:This first issue of Reality—The Philosophy of Realism—like most publications and especially those of a collaborative effort, signifies innumerable hours of effort. The goal of our journal…

Editorial Introduction – Reality as Katharsis

26 Feb 202019 Mar 2020

Daniel C. Wagner, PhD Professor and Chair of Philosophy Aquinas College, Grand Rapids MI Editor, Reality Brian Kemple, PhD Continuum Philosophical Insight Executive Editor, Reality This first issue of…

[Article] Made of Flame and Air

21 Feb 202020 Mar 2020

A response to Kirk Kanzelberger Michael J. Dodds, O.P. Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology Berkeley, CA Abstract: I comment on certain aspects of Kirk Kanzelberger’s article, “Reality and the…

[Article] The Philosophical Implications of Sense Realism

5 Feb 20203 Mar 2020

A Response to Daniel Wagner James D. Capehart, Ph.D. Sacred Heart Apostolic School Rolling Prairie, IN [response to daniel wagner, "the logical terms of sense realism"] Download Issue Version PDF…