Sublime

John O’Donohue, a former Irish Catholic priest, philosopher, poet, and, in his own words, mystic

The unorthodoxy of John the Scot is evident from the above summary. His pantheism, which refuses substantial reality to creatures, is contrary to Christian doctrine. His interpretation of the creation out of “nothing” is not such as any prudent theologian could accept.

Political Philosophy: Studies good and bad social institutions, and how society ought to be arranged.

Ethics: Studies right and wrong, good and bad.

a free society must be a moral society, for without the rule of law, constrained by the overarching imperatives of the right and the good, freedom will eventually degenerate into tyranny, and liberty, painfully won, will be lost.

Aquinas

socially necessary.

Modern politics and economics were built on the foundation of the rational pursuit of self-interest.