Delba Wintrop’s “Aristotle: Democracy and Political Science: From Claremont Review of Books
(This is an essay by Paul Ludwig in the Claremont Institute's Review of Books Spring 2020, entitled "Public Spiritedness". about Delba Wintrop's posthumously published Aristotle: Democracy and Political Science. She passed away in 2006. I have long...
The Hero in Nature, and the Pagan Ideal of Good
In 1840 Thomas Carlyle gave a series of lectures in London about "Heroes and Hero-Worship". I'm trying to condense some of them into modern easy-to-read English, for they touch on several subjects important to America today, but...
The Nature of Good pre-Civilization? The Civilized Older Days? Part II
(Picking up from Part I, a framing of the general question; Which came first, Good or Evil?):
The kind of heavy-handed Evil we have been describing here can not be written off as accidents of Nature, freaks or...
Which came first, the Good or the Bad in World Civilization? Part I
A debate might begin this way:
Satan bragged to Jesus in the Wilderness that he was the master of all the world's Kingdoms, and he would give them to Jesus if he would only bow down...
Satan’s Falling Out With God, News You Need
In the story I'm developing about Satan's battle against God I'm relying on JRR Tolkein's fictional rendering of their primordial relationship... in part because the Biblical account is sketchy, but also, in my view,...
Satan’s Chronicles; A Prelude
I've been working on a book for about six years, "Satan's History of the United States". I originally intended to model it after Schweikart and Allen's best seller Patriot's History of the United States, which...
Darwin Agrees with God More Than You Know
In the 13th Century there was an interesting Franciscan friar named Ramon Llull (pronounced “yoohl”), who, like another philosopher 400 years later named Pascal, was also a noted mathematician. So Llull understood both the...
First Principles About America: First Questions
Is America an accident? A freak of Nature? Or, is America the product of Intelligent Design?
I don’t intend to try to answer the second half of that question here as that requires an inquiry into philosophy...
American Apologetics
An Introduction
"Apologetics" is generally defined as religious arguments originally used by early church fathers to defend what would eventually become Christian doctrine, to both non-believers who had no particular religious beliefs, an act of persuasion, and...
