Book Review… [Book Review] Integralism 3 Jul 20202 Jul 2020 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…
Book Review… [Book Review] Nihilism & Technology | Nihilism 30 Jun 20201 Jul 2020 A review of and response to Nolen Gertz’s Nihilism and Technology (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, Ltd.) and Nihilism (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019). Ecce Homo Creator: a Tragedy Brian…
Essay [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,…
Essay [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…
Article [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…
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…
Book Review… [Book Review] The Right Side of History 16 May 20198 Aug 2019 Written by Francisco Plaza A review of Ben Shapiro's The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great (Broadside Books: New York, 2019). We face an…
