Article [Article] Christian Philosophy as an Existential Habitus 15 Aug 2021 Francisco PlazaPhD CandidateUniversity of St. Thomas, TXEditor, Reality[1] ABSTRACT: In this paper we shall explore Jacques Maritain’s definition of “Christian philosophy” with regard to how it is practiced, how it…
Essay [Essay] The Constitution of Culture 4 Aug 20215 Aug 2021 Specifying Objects and Jacques Maritain on the Temporal Order Brian Kemple, PhDExecutive DirectorLyceum InstituteEditor, Reality But it remains that culture and civilization have a specifying object—the earthly and perishable good…
Article [Article] How To Be a Contemporary Thomist: The Case of Marshall McLuhan 11 Dec 202011 Dec 2020 Adam Pugen, PhDUniversity of TorontoInstitute of Communication, Culture,Information and Technology ABSTRACT: The provocative nature of both the form and content, “medium” and “message,” of Marshall McLuhan’s scholarship on technological culture…
Essay [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…
Book Review… [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…
Article [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:…
Article [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…
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…
