Georgetown and Slavery: Catholic Redemption in Contemporary Political Time
By: Justin R. Harbour, ALM Georgetown University is currently engaged in an attempt to research, understand, and repair its role
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07, 2016
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06, 2016
Heart-Mind Cosmos: Panentheism in Mahayana Buddhism And Early 19th Century German Idealism
In the 17th century, Issac Newton wrote laws of nature in the language of mathematics. These laws were so convincing that Newtonian science became the ruling paradigm in European thought. But in a universe of mechanistic determinism, is there room for psyche, soul, ethics, and free will? To solve this problem, German idealism traced a philosophic path trod earlier in 4th century India.
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05, 2016
Silence as Speech: Reading Sor Juana’s Primero Sueño in the Light of her Final Silence
Sor Juana’s silence is difficult to “read,” but it is easy to hear. What can it show us about the way the absence of speech can itself be a mode of participation in public discourse?
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04, 2016
Buddha’s Political Philosophy
By: Stefan Schindler Do not build fifty palaces, your highness. After all, you can only be in one room at
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03, 2016
Sanders at Dearborn: A Socialist Love-Story
The idea that Bernie Sanders' support among Arabs and Muslims suggests there is little anti-Semitism in America is as absurd as the idea that there is no more racism in America, since it has elected a black president. Sanders is a democratic socialist, and socialism is one of the few Western political ideologies to have taken root in a big way in the Arab and Muslim world. This is a better explanation
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06, 2015
On Martyrs, Part One
By: Harold E. Clitus “I saw her wince, I saw her cry, I saw the the glory in her eye.
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06, 2015
Israel, Crucible of Civilizations
By: L. B. Benjamin “I am not sorry that we notice the barbarous horror of such acts, but I am