“Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt.” There are tears of things, and mortal things touch the mind.
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“Jerusalem’s Claim on Us” – Dr. Louise Cowan
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Feb 2012
It is my pleasure to direct your eyes to an essay by our beloved Dr. Louise Cowan. It is called “Jerusalem’s Claim on Us.” This essay has lifted up my soul so well that I do hope you set aside some time to read it. Dr. Cowan has delved into the very nature of the […]
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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” […]
Category: A Christian Poet in the Modern World, Aesthetics, Aristotle, Art, Arts of the Beautiful, beauty, claritas, consonantia, Etienne Gilson, Harold Weatherby, integritas, It Is What It Is, Jacques Maritain, Joyce, Kant, Pedantriactivity, Peeping Thomists, Philosophy, Plato, The Keen Delight, Thomas Aquinas, Thomist Aesthetic, Umberto Eco
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