Sublime

because Nietzscheanism collapses into absurdity in its inability to account and explain the intelligibility of reality itself, only a Platonism and Cartesianism of sorts can adequately account for reality in a consistent and intelligible manner.

The relation of ethics to politics raises another ethical question of considerable importance. Granted that the good at which right action should aim is the good of the whole community, or, ultimately, of the whole human race, is this social good a sum of goods enjoyed by individuals, or is it something belonging essentially to the whole, not to th

Physics, in Aristotle, is the science of what the Greeks called “phusis” (or “physis”), a word which is translated “nature,” but has not exactly the meaning which we attach to that word. We still speak of “natural science” and “natural history,” but “nature” by itself, though it is a very ambiguous word, seldom means just what “phusis” meant. “Phus

John Henry Newman,

Ethical theories may be divided into two classes, according as they regard virtue as an end or a means. Aristotle, on the whole, takes the view that virtues are means to an end, namely happiness. “The end, then, being what we wish for, the means what we deliberate about and choose, actions concerning means must be according to choice and voluntary.

There are certain perennial problems to which all interesting philosophy returns again and again; but there are no such things as logical discoveries that consign any of the older answers to obsolescence.

They must come to understand—and put into practice—the convictions that authentic faith is not opposed to reason; that scientism must be put to rest; that mere toleration must not be tolerated; that voluntarism must be eschewed; and that opponents must seek to really listen to one another. As an exemplar of these various intellectual and moral virt