Greetings Mark, is there a link here where I can get a list of posts from this substack or at least by month? The Archive doesn't cut it - I went to look back at your earliest posts and had to scroll and scroll for so long that I gave up after a year (of substack posts).
You're right--the archive function on substack is very inadequate for browsing. You can use the search function for specific subjects. The best way to access posts in a browsing mode is to go the old MiH (https://meaninginhistory.blogspot.com/) which will take you up to 9/2021. The archive is very handily accessible in the right sidebar. But I don't know of a fix for substack yet: Sept '21 to present.
I just googled the book you've referred me to read, and the 1950 edition of Charles Scribner & Sons' publication of it shows in the Forward that Gilson's lectures were of that same William James Lecture Series at Harvard to which Lovejoy addressed his lectures in the 1932-33 academic year.
So, yes, I'll buy and read this book also, after I've finished his book that you've translated.
And, thank you for going into some of the background for the existence of Gilson's writing. My recollection is vague but during the prior six years or so, I've been attentive to written commentary by Catholics on the the glaring disruption of Catholic teaching by the Church's institutions and its clergy, obviously since Vatican II, but in actual errors trending since the French Revolution.
Separately, my general lay interest in the subject of 'how should a man live?' has been nurtured iat the start by Arthur F. Holmes' course lectures in Introduction to Philosophy, given at Wheaton College and available free online, all 81 Lectures.
May God keep you and your family well and in His Graces,
You must be a mind reader, because I have been thinking of asking you how to access what I knew was a large body of work from the past. I agree with Don and take the same pledge. Particularly interested in Pope Benedict, who I now assume was the victim of a coup.
Something of the sort, coup. A lot of people resist and even take offense at what I'm saying about Ratzi. You have to remember that, like Wojtyła, he grew up in a very traditional Catholic cultural milieu--small town Bavaria, small town mountain area in southern Poland. Their intellectual formation was best termed "modernist" but they didn't have the same degree of disrespect for traditional piety. Ratzi is/was definitely a modernist and admirer of the arch gnostic de Chardin. His sympathy for his upbringing, IMO, is what led him to hope for an evolution and melding of the forms of worship, but he totally accepts the Kantian critique of metaphysics. You need to read his dense prose to get to that. He was no doubt a complicated person, perhaps conflicted, but I try to deal with the essentials and direction of his thought.
All that said, I am not what most people expect from a "traddy".
Mark, I am going to have to drastically up my game to meaningfully process your older essays. I have never used the words "ontology" or "gnostic" in a sentence, mainly because I don't know what they mean. (BSME, that's my excuse.)
You’re a marvel! And to think I had the good fortune to stumble on an article of yours on…powerline! Don’t read them any more, needless to say! I’m sure other readers feel the same way!
Thank you for putting forth to your readers these essays that are relational to our immediate time of history, of ever escalating battles of principalities and dominions. I have saved as a favorite your work on Benedict XVI, "Heresy, Thy Name is Benedict, or Ratzinger", but, have not yet read the essay, to comment. However, I am saving your post links, herein, via e.mail save; and I will read several of your selection.
Somewhat related, I have purchased, and have begun to read the work which you translated, by Etienne Gilson, "Thomist Realism And The Critique Of Knowledge". I am not familiar with the philosopher's work, and so this learning, for me, will open a wider understanding of another history of philosophy argument, that was made by Arthur O. Lovejoy in a lecture series, published as: "The Great Chain of Being".
Anyway, my sincere gratitude for your goodness in sharing your knowledge, and for directing your readers to be mindful.
Thanks, Joanne. The book on Thomist Realism is very important in its field, but specialized. At the time (1939) it was considered somewhat controversial because Gilson, a lay philosophy professor, was attacking big name clerical academics, including two very prominent Jesuits. For that reason the book had never been published in translation previously. One of Gilson's best and most accessible books for the general reader is his Harvard lectures "The Unity of Philosophical Experience" which provides an overview of Western philosophy and how it led into German idealism which still dominates the West and, sadly, theology.
Greetings Mark, is there a link here where I can get a list of posts from this substack or at least by month? The Archive doesn't cut it - I went to look back at your earliest posts and had to scroll and scroll for so long that I gave up after a year (of substack posts).
You're right--the archive function on substack is very inadequate for browsing. You can use the search function for specific subjects. The best way to access posts in a browsing mode is to go the old MiH (https://meaninginhistory.blogspot.com/) which will take you up to 9/2021. The archive is very handily accessible in the right sidebar. But I don't know of a fix for substack yet: Sept '21 to present.
Thank you, Mr. Wauck,
I just googled the book you've referred me to read, and the 1950 edition of Charles Scribner & Sons' publication of it shows in the Forward that Gilson's lectures were of that same William James Lecture Series at Harvard to which Lovejoy addressed his lectures in the 1932-33 academic year.
So, yes, I'll buy and read this book also, after I've finished his book that you've translated.
And, thank you for going into some of the background for the existence of Gilson's writing. My recollection is vague but during the prior six years or so, I've been attentive to written commentary by Catholics on the the glaring disruption of Catholic teaching by the Church's institutions and its clergy, obviously since Vatican II, but in actual errors trending since the French Revolution.
Separately, my general lay interest in the subject of 'how should a man live?' has been nurtured iat the start by Arthur F. Holmes' course lectures in Introduction to Philosophy, given at Wheaton College and available free online, all 81 Lectures.
May God keep you and your family well and in His Graces,
Sincerely, Joanne
You must be a mind reader, because I have been thinking of asking you how to access what I knew was a large body of work from the past. I agree with Don and take the same pledge. Particularly interested in Pope Benedict, who I now assume was the victim of a coup.
Something of the sort, coup. A lot of people resist and even take offense at what I'm saying about Ratzi. You have to remember that, like Wojtyła, he grew up in a very traditional Catholic cultural milieu--small town Bavaria, small town mountain area in southern Poland. Their intellectual formation was best termed "modernist" but they didn't have the same degree of disrespect for traditional piety. Ratzi is/was definitely a modernist and admirer of the arch gnostic de Chardin. His sympathy for his upbringing, IMO, is what led him to hope for an evolution and melding of the forms of worship, but he totally accepts the Kantian critique of metaphysics. You need to read his dense prose to get to that. He was no doubt a complicated person, perhaps conflicted, but I try to deal with the essentials and direction of his thought.
All that said, I am not what most people expect from a "traddy".
Mark, I am going to have to drastically up my game to meaningfully process your older essays. I have never used the words "ontology" or "gnostic" in a sentence, mainly because I don't know what they mean. (BSME, that's my excuse.)
I understand. Take it slowly. Those posts are the result of over 50 years reading and thinking about these things.
You’re a marvel! And to think I had the good fortune to stumble on an article of yours on…powerline! Don’t read them any more, needless to say! I’m sure other readers feel the same way!
Heh. They cut me off when I criticized something Andy McCarthy wrote.
Ha!
Good evening, Mr. Wauck,
Thank you for putting forth to your readers these essays that are relational to our immediate time of history, of ever escalating battles of principalities and dominions. I have saved as a favorite your work on Benedict XVI, "Heresy, Thy Name is Benedict, or Ratzinger", but, have not yet read the essay, to comment. However, I am saving your post links, herein, via e.mail save; and I will read several of your selection.
Somewhat related, I have purchased, and have begun to read the work which you translated, by Etienne Gilson, "Thomist Realism And The Critique Of Knowledge". I am not familiar with the philosopher's work, and so this learning, for me, will open a wider understanding of another history of philosophy argument, that was made by Arthur O. Lovejoy in a lecture series, published as: "The Great Chain of Being".
Anyway, my sincere gratitude for your goodness in sharing your knowledge, and for directing your readers to be mindful.
Very best wishes,
Joanne Wasserman
Thanks, Joanne. The book on Thomist Realism is very important in its field, but specialized. At the time (1939) it was considered somewhat controversial because Gilson, a lay philosophy professor, was attacking big name clerical academics, including two very prominent Jesuits. For that reason the book had never been published in translation previously. One of Gilson's best and most accessible books for the general reader is his Harvard lectures "The Unity of Philosophical Experience" which provides an overview of Western philosophy and how it led into German idealism which still dominates the West and, sadly, theology.
So many essays, so little time . . . :) But I will find a way to read every one. Thanks!