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128America's Religion versus Religion in America: A Philosophic ProfileJournal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies 11 (33): 3-20. 2012.Religion can be politicized to become a murderous ideology and ideology can be interpreted messianically to become a virtual religion. With the caveat that a religio-ideological capitalism pertains only to a minority of conservative Americans and that most Americans are not ideological, ideological capitalism has had an inordinate influence on America’s social-political praxis. This praxis has suffered from the ideology where “ideology” denotes inter alia: 1) a system of belief whose believers a…Read more
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110Quantum Fluctuation, Self-Organizing Biological Systems, and Human FreedomIdealistic Studies 24 (3): 269-281. 1994.I now understand why the invitation to contribute an article on “chaos theory” invoked both my excitement and reticience. Let me first explain my excitement in terms of intriguing developments generated by the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite. Since COBE strengthened an “inflationary” Big Bang Theory wherein the structure of the universe was induced by random statistical fluctuations, there are implications inter alia of thermodynamics for chaotic fluctuations in both the structure and biolo…Read more
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80Business, Ethics, and Business EthicsThought: Fordham University Quarterly 66 (3): 297-309. 1991.
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68Beyond the Big Bang: Quantum Cosmologies and God. By William B. Drees (review)Modern Schoolman 69 (2): 163-165. 1992.
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61Women's FashionCultura 6 (2): 46-67. 2009.A perennial influence on the aesthetics of fashion, fostered by Plato and Aristotle, is challenged today by a prevalent social constructionism. The latter embraces an impracticable biodenial as well as an incoherent epistemic relativism, reminiscent of Greek Sophism, whereby truth-claims about good fashion may be both true and false either in the same culture at different times or at the same time in different cultures. But a normative aesthetics of Aristotle and Plato, that affirms an epistemic…Read more
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57Art as Certifiably Good or BadCultura 8 (2): 39-50. 2011.Connections of beauty to science, whereby scientific truth informs truth about art, is denied by a Humean-Kantian-positivist tradition. Its denial of even scientifictheories being known to be true proceeds pari passu with denying any known truth in the less rigorous sciences such as aesthetics that, for Aristotle, studiesbeauty’s cause. Related to causation is a modern problem of “knowing we know”: knowledge in science presupposes a causal principle whose truth is not known when expressed as a t…Read more
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51St. Thomas’ Modal Logic: Did Wittgenstein and Heidegger Embrace It?Idealistic Studies 26 (1): 79-99. 1996.Wittgenstein and Heidegger were not merely pioneering leaders of different philosophical schools. They both disavowed a Judeo-Christian God and influenced trends opposed to traditional metaphysical arguments. Therefore, we may suppose that they had a major role in relegating medieval arguments for God to archaic syllogistic pedantries. But I will argue that a conditional premise in Thomas’ Second-Way argument not only finds expression in modal logic, since it specifies necessarily if there is no…Read more
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36Is there any ethics in business ethicsJournal of Business Ethics 8 (4). 1989.It is argued, against Richard T. De George, that while clarification of concepts, implications, and presuppositions in business ethics largely relies on a neutral territory of reason, determination of what moral intuitions are correct depends on non-neutral ethical theories. The latter posit ethics in business to varying degrees. Thus while the Kantian and utilitarian ethical theories are, for De George, proper (philosophical) approaches to business ethics, they are as reliant on affirming and e…Read more
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24Aristotle Versus Van Til And Lukasiewicz On Contradiction: Are Contradictions Irrational In Science And Theology?Logos and Episteme 3 (2): 323-344. 2012.The Polish logician Jan Lukasiewicz and the American theologian Cornelius Van Til are famous for challenging Aristotle’s Principle of Contradiction.Whereas apparent contradictions such as God and physical reality being both One and Not One (Many) are accepted in terms of an idealism held by Van Til, the Principle’s violations in theology and science reflect a realism held by Lukasiewicz. Lukasiewicz is favored for explaining why the Principle’s violation may be rational for a scientific and theo…Read more
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23St. Augustine's Epistemology: an Ignored Aristotelian Theme and its Intriguing AnticipationsLaval Théologique et Philosophique 50 (1): 187-205. 1994.
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20Women's FashionCultura 6 (2): 46-67. 2009.A perennial influence on the aesthetics of fashion, fostered by Plato and Aristotle, is challenged today by a prevalent social constructionism. The latter embraces an impracticable biodenial as well as an incoherent epistemic relativism, reminiscent of Greek Sophism, whereby truth-claims about good fashion may be both true and false either in the same culture at different times or at the same time in different cultures. But a normative aesthetics of Aristotle and Plato, that affirms an epistemic…Read more
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14This is a study of how the thinkingof the Ancient Greek philosophers has a relevance to society today. The book looks at individual philosophers and explores their thoughts, the problems with their ideas, and the implication of these ideas for morality and politics, human nature, education and art and science. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle are examined in depth.
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13Medieval modal logic & science: Augustine on necessary truth & Thomas on its impossibility without a first causeUniversity Press of America. 1999.Medieval Modal Logic & Science uses modal reasoning in a new way to fortify the relationships between science, ethics, and politics. Robert C. Trundle accomplishes this by analyzing the role of modal logic in the work of St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, then applying these themes to contemporary issues. He incorporates Augustine's ideas involving thought and consciousness, and Aquinas's reasoning to a First Cause. The author also deals with Augustine's ties to Aristotelian modalities of tho…Read more
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11From Physics to Politics: The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern PhilosophyTransaction. 2002.Mass ideology is unique to modern society and rooted in early modern philosophy. Traditionally, knowledge had been viewed as resting on metaphysics. Rejecting metaphysical truth evoked questions about the source of "truth." For nineteenth-century ideologists, "truth" comes either from dominating classes in a progressively determined history or from a post-Copernican freedom of the superior man to create it. In From Physics to Politics Robert C. Trundle, Jr. uncovers the relation of modern philos…Read more
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11Twentieth-Century Despair & Thomas' Sound Argument for GodLaval Théologique et Philosophique 52 (1): 101-123. 1996.
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10Cold-War ideology : an apologetics for global ethnic conflict?Res Publica 38 (1): 49-72. 1996.Kant had a notion of our determined and freely-choosing behavior which illuminates basic assumptions of contemporary ideologies. A myopic embracement of only one or the other behavior has been superseded by a new entanglement which renders moot ordinary political classifications. Fascism had typically affirmed the radical freedom of an Uebermensch as well as a superior race and racism; Marxist communism a radical determinism as well as inevitable class warfare. But during the Cold War, especiall…Read more
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7The Cases For and Against Theological Approaches to Business EthicsLaval Théologique et Philosophique 47 (2): 241-259. 1991.
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7_Integrated Truth and Existential Phenomenology: A Thomistic Response to Iconic Anti-Realists in Science_ relates existential phenomenology to a modal reasoning for establishing a Thomistic integration of objective truths in science, theology, ethics, art and politics.
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7Religious Belief and Scientific WeltanschauungenLaval Théologique et Philosophique 45 (3): 405-422. 1989.
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6Consciousness and being: from being to truth in the Thomistic traditionPickwick Publications. 2019.This book is of vital interest to anyone who yearns to know how science, theology, ethics, art, and politics do really afford objective truths. Not only that, but how these truths in seemingly clashing areas are interrelated by common sense and rooted in our incontrovertible consciousness of Being itself. Being itself, as the basis for truth, is defended against truth-denying modern philosophers who, having headed in the wrong direction with tragic costs of murderous ideologies, have completely …Read more
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2Benjamin B. Page, ed., Marxism and Spirituality: An International Anthology Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 13 (5): 258-260. 1993.
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1If Miracles Are Caused by Nature's God, Can There Be Scientific Truth?Aquinas 48 (3). 2005.We investigate whether there can be scientific truth if this truth depends ’inter alia’ on a true causal principle and if the principle strictly implies ’nature’s God’ ’qua’ a ’first cause’. If there is this ’cause’, then how does one know whether it or a natural cause was the cause of a phenomenon? Responses to this question involve examining critiques of the causal principle by Hume and Kant as well as by distinguishing logical from physical possibilities
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1Modalidades aristotélicas de san Agustín: En memoria de Fr. José Oroz RetaAugustinus 42 (164-65): 13-40. 1997.
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