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12Preface to Special Issue: The Philosophical Legacy of John Henry NewmanAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 94 (1): 1-3. 2020.
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28What Newman Can Give Catholic Philosophers TodayAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 94 (1): 5-26. 2020.In this article I explain various points of contact between Newman and the Catholic philosophical tradition. I begin with Newman’s personalism as it is found in the Grammar of Assent, especially in the distinction between notional and real assent, and in the distinction between formal and informal inference. Then I proceed to Newman’s personalism as it is found in his teaching on conscience and on doctrinal development. I then consider Newman as proto-phenomenologist and also as an Augustinian t…Read more
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39On the Difference between the Cosmological and the Personalist Understanding of the Human BeingQuaestiones Disputatae 9 (2): 112-125. 2019.In this essay, I try to advance the reception of Karol Wojtyła’s seminal essay “Subjectivity and the Irreducible in Man.” In particular I try to understand and to think through the distinction that he makes between the “personalist” and the “cosmological” image of man. I unpack Wojtyła’s concept of subjectivity, which underlies all that he says about the personalist image of man. I give particular attention to all that he says about the unity formed by the two images. I then proceed to apply Woj…Read more
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10Critique of Value RelativismPhilosophie Et Culture: Actes du XVIIe Congrès Mondial de Philosophie 3 387-391. 1988.
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24John F. Crosby, A. Schopf, Brigitte Weisshaupt, Charles HartshomePhilosophie Et Culture: Actes du XVIIe Congrès Mondial de Philosophie 5 608-608. 1988.
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18Person and ObligationAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 79 (1): 91-119. 2005.In the course of his polemic against Kant’s moral philosophy, Scheler was led to depreciate moral obligation and its place in the existence of persons. This depreciation is part of a larger anti-authoritarian strain in his personalism. I attempt to retrieve certain truths about moral obligation that tend to get lost in Scheler: moral obligation is not merely “medicinal” but has a place at the highest levels of moral life; the freedom of persons is lived in an incomparable way in responding to mo…Read more
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73The Dialectic of Selfhood and Relationality in the Human PersonProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 66 (n/a): 181-189. 1992.
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103The personhood of the human embryoJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 18 (4): 399-417. 1993.My interlocutor is anyone who denies peisonhood to the embryo on the grounds that a human person can exist only in conscious activity and that in the absence of consciousness a person cannot exist at all. I probe personal consciousness to the point at which the distinction between the being and the consciousness of the human person appears, and argue on the basis of this distinction that the being of a person can exist in the absence of any consciousness. I proceed to argue that it is not only e…Read more
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11Conscience and Superego: A Phenomenological Analysis of Their Difference and RelationLogos. Anales Del Seminario de Metafísica [Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España] 1 (4). 1998.
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19Response to Mark C. Murphy’s “Suárez’s ‘Best Argument’ and the Dependence of Morality on God”Quaestiones Disputatae 5 (1): 43-46. 2014.
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32Inference and Intuition in the understanding of Other PersonsProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 73 137-146. 1999.
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8Inference and Intuition in the understanding of Other PersonsProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 73 137-146. 1999.
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233Is All Evil Really Only Privation?Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 75 197-209. 2001.It is proposed to test the privation theory of evil by examining three kinds of evil: (1) the evil of the complete destruction of some good (as distinct from the wounding of that good); (2) the evil of physical pain; and (3) certain forms of moral evil in which the evildoer is hostile to some good. It is shown that in none of these cases does evil seem to fit the privation scheme, and that in the second and third case evil seems to be in some way “more” than privation. In conclusion it is argued…Read more
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32Developing Dietrich von Hildebrand’s PersonalismAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 91 (4): 687-702. 2017.I explore the personalism embedded in von Hildebrand’s moral philosophy, and then I explore the personalism in his later account of love. I claim that his personalism was significantly developed in his later work, and that it can be still further developed by us. I begin by explaining what Hildebrandian value-response is, and then I proceed to show how he subsequently qualified this foundational concept, first in his Ethics but especially in his late work, The Nature of Love, and here especially…Read more
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31Speech act theory and phenomenologyIn Adolf Reinach & John Crosby (eds.), The a Priori Foundations of the Civil Law [1913], De Gruyter. pp. 167-192. 2012.
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26How Is It Possible Knowingly To Do Wrong?Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 74 325-333. 2000.
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51The Individuality of Human Persons: A Study in the Ethical Personalism of Max SchelerReview of Metaphysics 52 (1): 21-50. 1998.In his deep and significant study of the thought of Max Scheler, Hans Urs von Balthasar writes that “the realm of the personal was Scheler’s innermost concern, more important to him than anything else, the sanctuary of his thought.” This is why Scheler again and again aligned himself with personalism in philosophy, as we can see from the introduction to his major work, Formalism in Ethics
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13The Heart: An Analysis of Human and Divine AffectationSt. Augustine's Press. 2007.This new edition of The Heart is the flagship volume in a series of Dietrich von Hildebrand's works to be published by St. Augustine's Press in collaboration with the Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project. Founded in 2004, the Legacy Project exists in the first place to translate the many German writings of von Hildebrand into English. While many revere von Hildebrand as a religious author, few realize that he was a philosopher of great stature and importance. Those who knew von Hildebrand as p…Read more
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33The Dialectic of Autonomy and Theonomy in the Human PersonProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 64 (n/a): 250-258. 1990.
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9How Is It Possible Knowingly To Do Wrong?Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 74 325-333. 2000.
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22Radical constructivism and theological epistemologyEssays in the Philosophy of Humanism 18 (1): 1-16. 2010.Theology and religious beliefs, including issues dealing with theism, deism, creedal statements, dogma, and spiritualism are considered to be constructed reality. They are herein identified as first order truth. First order truth is personal truth and, as such, it becomes part of the reality of the believer. Constructed theological and religious belief is considered to be a legitimate part of radical constructivism irrespective of the validity and viability of the constructed reality. Second ord…Read more
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22A “Primer of Infidelity” Based on Newman? A Study of Newman’s Rhetorical StrategyNewman Studies Journal 8 (1): 6-19. 2011.Newman often argued like this in debate: “you do not accept this claim of mine because you think that it is exposed to certain objections; but this is unreasonable of you, because you make this other claim which is also, if you think it through, equally exposed to the same kind of objections; therefore, you should either withdraw your objections against me, or else give up that claim that you have been making.” Some contemporaries of Newman thought that he unwittingly lent support to unbelief by…Read more
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