Category: Von Hildebrand, Dietrich
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Faith: Life-Enhancing Only if True?
In July of 2022 I published a post entitled Faith's Immanent Value. Here are the opening paragraphs slightly redacted: Suppose you sincerely believe in God and the soul but that your faith is in vain. You die and become nothing. Your faith was that the curtain would lift, but it falls, irrevocably. My question is…
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Steven Nemes’ Review of Dietrich von Hildebrand’s Ethics: Some Questions
The review is a well written and very fair summary of von Hildebrand's book. (I read portions of the latter in graduate school days but I do not currently have it in my library.) Here is the review's main critical passage together with my remarks. [Von] Hildebrand’s arguments for the objectivity of value therefore seem…
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Words of the Day
Thanks to, or rather, because of 'liberal' dumbing-down, people these days have terribly limited vocabularies. Here are a couple you should know. Both definitions from Merriam-Webster. Definition of avulsion : a forcible separation or detachment: such as a : a tearing away of a body part accidentally or surgically b : a sudden cutting off…