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…
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…
These doctors certainly mean to try (https://fashionista.com/2019/06/psychodermatology-mental-health-skin-care). The skin care business is a vast one in the West, and a vast, vast one in China, and other Asian countries. It has even attracted the attention of the CIA (https://www.lawliberty.org/2016/11/28/beauty-and-the-beast/). Psychodermatology is an intensification of the blending already offered by the industries devoted to…
This is a really interesting insight into high stakes football (https://www.thisisanfield.com/2019/06/the-surprise-influence-benfica-b-had-on-liverpools-champions-league-final-success/). The glory and money rewards for winning the Champions League are enormous. Football inspired fashion is a major part of fashion revenues and mostly especially for clubs. I’ve spoken about PSG as a self-conscious fashion venture (https://www.ethicsoffashion.com/psg-football-club-as-fashion/). Liverpool are not, but their recent…
V&R is a huge fan of the idea of Scheler and Caillois that the universal grammar of nature is pantomime. Schopenhauer hints at something similar though in a more conflictual register. In Tolkien’s story Beren and Luthien, Tinuviel dresses Beren up as a cat, “and she teaches him how to sit and sprawl, to…
V&R started because I had written a book about the body, but then started to think more about the clothed body through the influence of David Hume and Adam Smith. They argue that ethics is inseparable from the experience of adornment. Fashion is about the body, the passions, beauty, craft, machines, numbers, and industry. …
Suspicious of Beren, Luthien hides from him. In a “silver-pearly dress” she ducks “down among white hemlocks and hid herself beneath a very tall flower with many spreading leaves; and here she looked in her white raiment like a spatter of moonlight shimmering through the leaves upon the floor” (Beren and Luthien, p. 42). Roger…
In an interesting article — https://fashionista.com/2018/10/sustainable-ethical-fashion-clothes-aesthetic-style — Dominique Drakeford explains that African slaves were required to wear drab clothing. However, for liturgies and veneration, they had license to make their own clothes and so favoured cloth of vibrant constellations of colour. She writes: “In order to feel liberated and to make a distinction between their…
“Warhol loved snapping nudes, full on nudes, which he called “Landscapes”” (https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/opinion/op-ed-in-the-universe-of-warhol?) This is an interesting idea: The body as a landscape. It puts me in mind of Leibniz’s beautiful claim that the body of the monad is like a garden. Warhol is the definition of avant-garde and with skincare companies scanning the face…
Tolkien-inspired tattoo design by up-and-coming Baltimore artist: https://www.instagram.com/jaynejezebelle/ ~~~~~~~~~~~ Personalism is the root philosophy of CST. Applications of CST to fashion, or any other industry, will have personalism in play. My previous post on the topic (http://www.ethicsoffashion.com/catholic-personalism-and-non-ego-psychology/) argued that Karol Wojtyla’s personalism affirms ego psychology. Before we point to a turn in his…