This school year I have been slowly making my way through Etienne Gilson’s book The Arts of the Beautiful. I have been doing this with some other colleagues of mine at Glendale Prep. We’ve been getting together and discussing the book as part of a “Philosophy of Beauty” reading group. It was one of my “intellectual projects” […]
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McInerny Revisited
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Feb 2010
A couple weeks ago a giant went ungently into that good night. I am sad to say that I gave him only a passing mention, because I was so busy, but I would like to revisit and mark again the importance of Professor Ralph McInerny of the University of Notre Dame. He was a giant, […]
