John G. Brungardt

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• The insubordination of economics

  By John Brungardt on July 30, 2023 • ( 5 )

  

  Paul Oslington’s essay—“Why are Philosophers and Theologians so Hostile to Economics?”—provides a case study of the academic phenomenon of failure to obtain joinder of issue. The essay is an underwhelming and confused mix of agreement and critique. My interest was… Read More ›

• The Church in the broken city of modernity

  By John Brungardt on July 27, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  In a recent essay, translated as “The Church Has the Form of a City” (July 26, 2023, at Public Discourse), French philosopher Pierre Manent writes: The inseparably political and logical obstacle consists in this: to resolve the problem posed by… Read More ›

• At the Heart of Being

  By John Brungardt on July 14, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  Over at Thomistica.net, one can find my review-essay of Dr. John F. X. Knasas’s recent book, Thomistic Existentialism and Cosmological Reasoning. From the introduction: In the following review-essay, I explore in some detail Knasas’s argumentation and some of its consequences…. Read More ›

• Josias Podcast XXV, Q&A on Integralism

  By John Brungardt on 网页加速器 • ( 0 )

  

  The most recent Josias podcast, Nº. XXV, features a lengthy Q&A session that might clarify the particular and general ends at which the Josias aims, as well as the wide variety of political and economic forms of government, need for political… Read More ›

• The Question of Catholic Integralism: An Internet Genealogy

  By John Brungardt on May 22, 2023 • ( 3 )

  

  [N.b.: Updated, 2023 May 31: Future posts about integralism are in the works, so I hope this will be my last update to this one. I’ve added a Public Discourse essay that was overlooked by the first version.] The purpose… super加速器

• Shorting the Market on the Common Good

  By John Brungardt on May 12, 2023 • ( 2 )

  

  Over at Public Discourse, an essay by Joseph E. Capizzi and V. Bradley Lewis—entitled “Bullish on the Common Good?”—attempts to put recent conservative discussion about “the common good” in a more realistic and pragmatic light. They refer to C. C…. Read More ›

• Thomistic book on evolution—publication and translation

  By John Brungardt on May 1, 2023 • ( 2 )

  

  One of the ongoing cooperative projects I’m involved with is the translation of Juan Eduardo Carreño’s 2017 book, La filosofía tomista ante el hecho de la evolución del viviente corpóreo: Consideraciones metodológicas y conceptuales para una integración, or in its… Read More ›

• The “Perfect” System Would Eliminate Being Human

  By John Brungardt on April 26, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  A recent case heard by the Supreme Court of the Netherlands found that “a doctor had not acted improperly when he euthanized a 74-year-old woman with advanced dementia, even though the woman had to be repeatedly sedated and physically restrained… Read More ›

• The cosmos of Christian mystery

  By John Brungardt on April 14, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  Mattias Joseph Scheeben‘s The Mysteries of Christianity begins with a reflection on the nature of Christian mystery. It can also be read as a commentary on the prooemium to the Summa contra Gentiles Book IV (which is itself an echo… Read More ›

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