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We are accustomed to looking upon the universities as the loci of scholarly investigation and consideration, but in the centuries before these institutions were born in the West scholarship found its hibernaculum in the great monasteries. The reflections of the … Continue reading →

St. Paul, while preaching in Athens, converted to the faith a certain Dionysius, a member of the once potent but still prestigious body that sat at the Areogapus (Ares’ Hill). Centuries later (circa 500AD), an anonymous scholar of notable abilities … Continue reading →

Augustine lived in an age of anxiety.The established state and the civilized world were being eroded by foreign elements once considered the necessary components of political stabilization and economic surety, and by political divisiveness and uncertainty as to how to … Continue reading →

Plotinus is the last flower of the world as Greek. After him it is the Roman influence that ascends in cult and culture, and its power comes in two flavours: practicality, and legality. Both these, along with Plotinus, and the … Continue reading →

In the ancient world there was a detectable ennui with the ability of any cult or philosophy to wield a binding vision. There was more serious discontent with the lack of an embraceable order to govern the acts of men. … Continue reading →

In the theories of Plato and Aristotle we have the two poles of occidental philosophical thought. All that follows orbits in some degree about one of these two understandings of how reality is constructed, and how we come to know … Continue reading →