Mah: 97 books

In Spirit and Reality (1939), Nicholas Berdyaev, an Orthodox exile from communist Russia, frequently writes the word "spirit", but rarely pens the word "reality". How should I appreciate this? Here is my guess. In Philosophy of Nature (1935), Jacques Maritain presents an argument...

Why a series of primers?These primers provide in depth coverage of the nested form constructs in the book: How to Define the Word “Religion”.Primers 1 and 2 developed the category-based nested forms discussed in “the meaning underlying the word ‘religion’”.The next several primer address...

Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) revives the Freudian tradition in mid-20th century France. His writings are notoriously difficult. In fact, in an interview titled “the triumph of religion”, also translated by Bruce Fink, Lacan admits that his works are meant to be read rather than understood. They are...

The Honorable Doris Tsang is the "most successful" of the three Tsang sisters. She's a superior court judge married to a respected medical research scientist for over thirty years. Her three sons are graduate students in medicine and law school. She's always kept to the straight and narrow...

Nineteen year-old college tennis star Gina Tsang dropped out of school to marry her sweetheart, baseball star Jonathan Lee, who was recently drafted into the professional league. Five years, multiple affairs by John and a black eye later, she returns to her love of tennis to recover a measure her...

In 2016, Robert Berwick and Noam Chomsky published a book on the evolution of language. They focus on computational systems and universal grammar, the respective fields of expertise for each author. They endorse a familiar proposal. Human language appeared right before the appearance of symbolic cultural...

Why civilization? The answer marks the first singularity, the contradiction of all that went before. Our current Lebenswelt is not "the Lebenswelt that we evolved in". "Everything that we evolved to be" passed through this singularity. Social complexity was no longer constrained....

Hard-working Joseph Carroll publishes “Evolutionary Literary Theory" in A Companion to Literary Theory (first edition, edited by David H. Richter, 2018; John Wiley and Sons Ltd., New York; pages 425-438). He follows the current paradigm, where humans are constituted as a suite of solutions...

Mariusz Tabaczek, OP, publishes an essay in 2019 in the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly. The full title is “What Do God and Creatures Really Do in an Evolutionary Change? Divine Concurrence and Transformation from the Thomistic Perspective”. He wonders whether it is right to ascribe...

Matthew K. Minerd Ph.D. considers the issue of ens rationis (mind-dependent being) through a sequence of vignettes, starting with Aristotle (5372-5452 U0’: Ubaid Zero Prime) and Avicenna (6780-6837), proceeding through Thomas Aquinas (7025-7074) and Hervaeus Natalis (7055-7123), and ending with...

A freak ski accident brings nineteen-year old Mia Kinney within minutes of death. Hurt and scared, Mia is calmed by the southern drawl and clear green eyes of her rescuer.   Twenty-one year old Dylan Blackburn is one of the first Ski Patrol members on the scene. As his patient is airlifted...

On a bitter cold winter night Bailey Walsh’s family was killed in a traffic accident. Two years later as she lives with her aunt and uncle in Southern California, Bailey is still plagued by the nightmares of that terrible night. Everywhere around her are reminders of what she lost. Even her aunt,...

En s’inscrivant sur un site de rencontre pour célibataires, suite à une désillusion, AZac Dante ne s’attendait pas à tomber sur une jeune femme si énigmatique, Anya. Elle lui révèle être une Fille du vent : « Certains récits de batailles parlent de notre peuple sur Gaïa, écrits...