The link below is to an open source article I have just published with my blogging contributor friend, Chris Wojtulewicz. It’s an inquiry into AI and the theology of motherhood. We’re calling this approach to moral theology Lacanian Thomism. It’s really for those who like a meaty long read. In its own way, it’s a…
Many thanks to Law and Liberty for posting my reflection on a book about how the arts are housed in our cities: Art’s Establishment
“Shopping for luxury has become a lingua franca in today’s world” (Olivier Gabet, director of the Museum of Decoractive Arts, Paris). Likely, this statement horrifies many. Fashion, luxury, vanity, and even beauty have had a difficult history in the West. ~~~~~ Here, in brief, is what some philosophers have argued. Plato: luxury and vanity are…
Huge congrats to David Beckham for signing off on this cool logo for his new soccer team in Miami. MLS is the football league of the US and needs Beckham’s stardust to kick it on to the next level. All footie fans will welcome the idea of footie really taking off in the US. …
Tim Cook: “National and international debates will outlive us all, and, while important, they do not govern the facts. In this case, we thoroughly reviewed them, and we believe this decision best protects our users” (https://www.forbes.com/sites/isabeltogoh/2019/10/11/apple-ceo-tim-cook-defends-decision-to-drop-controversial-hong-kong-protest-app/#161be9c8186c). Over the last two weeks, America’s woke capitalists have been only too eager to placate China’s authoritarian government…
Phenomenology’s Influence in the West
Likely, regular readers recall one of my favorite books is Brideshead Revisited. There is a delightful reflection by Charles Ryder on the meaning of his relationship with Sebastian which touches on play, a preoccupation of these pages and my new book (https://www.amazon.com/Erich-Przywara-Postmodern-Natural-Law/dp/0268105944?). Charles is chastised by his very stuffy cousin that Sebastian is “bad…
ThirdLove bills itself as a progressive, feminist, woman-led leader in lingere. In this expose (https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/9/16/20864206/thirdlove-bra-company-women-employees-quit-ceo), evidence is offered that it is something rather different. The following quote is a summary of the culture, one incompatible with a staff primarily made up of women: “This about-face was compounded by company norms — don’t negotiate your…
Leibniz is father to one of the most unusual metaphysics proposed by a philosopher. A great mathematician and scientist, he had a profound intuition about the individuality of all things. Amongst many startling ideas, he corrects Thomas Aquinas’s idea that each angel is a species unto itself. In the Middle Ages, this idea was…
Fashion journalism needs to improve. This weekend, Dior is perceived to have made a “slur” by an ad using Native American imagery for a perfume named Sauvage. I certainly get the absurdity of Jonny Depp dressing and dancing like a Native American. I understand that Dior had consultants from that community but surely…