Feast of the Restless Family
Each time we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Family, I am reminded of my trip to Egypt, several years ago, and the visits I paid to a few of
The Silent Night of Fecundity
Easter is dramatic, and the narrative from Palm Sunday to the Ascension is laden with more twists and turns and ups and downs than anything Aeschylus or even Shakespeare could
Leaving Troy (rev.)
The northwestern corner of “Asia Minor” (today’s Turkey) represented to the ancient world the westernmost cusp of the huge, heaving landmass of Asia, stretching behind it all the way to
Is the Universe God’s Selfie?
The short answer is: no. A somewhat longer response, however, will give a measure of legitimacy to those at first beguiled by the notion. Genesis and the Abrahamic faiths insist
The Tool of Tools and the Form of Forms
The so-called “logical” works of Aristotle have been grouped together since his first major editor, Andronicus of Rhodes, assembled them in the 1st century B.C. It seems Andronicus – or
On the Cenoscopic and Idioscopic – and why they matter
After a year of pondering and rewriting, I have completed my text on Peirce’s (and Deely’s) distinction, not yet fully recognized in the academy. One can only hope it finds
On the abused, the corrupted and the exceptional
Abusus non tollit usum. Corruptio optimi pessima. Exceptio probat regulam. These three Latin adages have helped me to stay sane more perhaps that the thousands of pages of philosophy I
Incoming Light
Friends and students had asked me to indicate the authors who have had the greatest influence on my life and thinking. If ever my words have communicated light or touched
First Review of Kelly Anthology (link e tradução portuguesa)
http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/bernard-kelly-and-the-vigor-of-lay-thought tradução portuguesa (resenha em inglês publicado no The National Catholic Register, 12 de maio de 2018): Bernard Kelly e o vigor do pensamento leigo Gerald J. Russello A CATHOLIC
What “catholic” should also mean
καθ’ ὅλου — there it is in its original form, dolled up in those adorable Greek letters (romanized it would be kath’olou, meaning something like ‘in a general way’, or ‘according to
The 99% Percent Problem
How often do we hear that over 90% of this, or 95% of that, or even 99% of something else surprisingly dwarfs the remaining percents in the calculation, and that