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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”

3Jul 20202 Jul 2020

[Book Review] Integralism

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

30Jun 20201 Jul 2020

[Book Review] Nihilism & Technology | Nihilism

A review of and response to Nolen Gertz’s Nihilism and Technology (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, Ltd.) and Nihilism (Cambridge,…

20Mar 202020 Mar 2020

[Article] Was Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange a Personalist?

A Rapprochement Between the Individual-Person Distinction and the Primacy of the Common Good Contra Maritain’s Personalism[1] Taylor Patrick O’Neill Assistant…

[Book Review] What Love Is

11 Nov 201916 Jun 2020

Written by Brian Kemple A review of and response to Carrie Jenkins’ What Love Is: And What It Could Be, (New York: Basic Books, 2017).[1] The Ruin and Salvation of…

Essay

[Essay] Aristotle on Nature (φύσις) – Part II

5 Nov 201910 Jun 2020

Ancient Source of Katharsis for the Lived Nihilism of Modernity Daniel C. Wagner, Ph.D.Aquinas College, Grand Rapids MIEditor, Reality The following is part II (of II) in a working paper adapted…

[Article] Reality and the Meaning of Evil

28 Oct 201919 Mar 2020

Kirk Kanzelberger, PhD Franciscan University, Steubenville, OH ABSTRACT: “Evil is really only a privation.” This philosophical commonplace reflects an ancient solution to the problem of theodicy in one of…

Essay

[Essay] Aristotle on Nature (φύσις) – Part I

25 Oct 201912 Apr 2020

Ancient Source of Katharsis for the Lived Nihilism of Modernity Daniel C. Wagner, Ph.D. Aquinas College, Grand Rapids MI Editor, Reality The following is part I (of II) in a working…

[Article] Classical Realism in a Democratic Context

17 Oct 20193 Mar 2020

Brian Jones, PhD Candidate University of St. Thomas, Houston TX ABSTRACT: In this response to Francisco Plaza’s paper, I have two primary aims. First, to highlight and further explore…

[Article] Political Science and Realism

17 Oct 20193 Mar 2020

Francisco E. Plaza, PhD Candidate University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX Editor, Reality ABSTRACT: This article contrasts the pursuit of political science from a classically realist perspective versus a…

[Article] Interpretation and Traditions

10 Jul 201915 Oct 2019

Written by Brian Kemple [download pdf]An intersection for semiotics, phenomenology, and Thomism My topic in this article develops from themes I have advanced or at least suggested in both Ens Primum…

[Book Review] Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny

19 Jun 201918 Dec 2019

Written by Brian Kemple A review of Kate Manne’s Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny (Oxford University Press: New York, 2018) Semantic Activism in the Service of Ideology “So maybe…

Essay

[Essay] Dostoevsky and the Cry of Rachel

11 Jun 201926 Oct 2019

Written by Francisco Plaza One of the most recurring issues in the history of philosophy is the problem of evil: more specifically, of how to reconcile the inevitability of suffering…

Essay

[Essay] Participation and the Divine

19 May 20196 Aug 2019

Written by Brian Kemple Examining Thomas Aquinas’ fourth way of proving the existence of God, readers may discover a number of difficulties as to how it should be interpreted:[1] The…