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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”

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[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…

3Jul 20202 Jul 2020
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[Book Review] Integralism

A review of and response to Thomas Crean, OP and Alan Fimister’s Integralism: A Manual of Political Philosophy (Haverton, PA:…

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[Essay] Tradition of Questioning

29 Aug 2020
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…
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[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…
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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,…
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[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…
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[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…
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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…
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[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…
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[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…
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[Article] Aquinas On Suppositum, Essence & Universals

5 Feb 20205 Feb 2020
  Seth Kreeger PhD Candidate Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology [online only response to daniel wagner, "the logical terms of sense realism"] Download as PDF Having read “The Logical…

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