Kirk’s conservatism was the conservatism of loss—not of rout or retreat, and certainly not despair, but one that treasures what is gone as well as what we have.
For those anchored in Christian tradition, Vattimo’s postmodernism is interesting for claiming to share this anchor, even as it sails into perilous waters.
In Outside the Gates, Hackett reveals to us that transcendence is woven into social reality, most especially in that highest friendship which tyranny seeks to root out: the friendship of virtue.
In Augustine, Ratzinger found a thinker who believed that the dimensions of faith and reason “should not be separated or placed in opposition; rather, they must always go hand in hand.”
In this episode of ‘In Search of Europe,’ our series on the history of European thought and philosophy, host Karl Gustel Wärnberg talks with Ryan Haecker, a philosopher and theologian affiliated with the American Academy in Rome.
