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Beyond Secular Order: The Representation of Being and the Representation of the People (Illuminations: Theory & Religion)

he’s a phenomenologist,

Sonu Shamdasani • Lament of the Dead

Decades after the truce, John Locke—whose philosophy influenced the American founding fathers more than any other—wrote about human nature as if it were an “unknowable x.” He knew that disagreements over religion (Jerusalem) and over reason (Athens) were dangerous, so he declared the question of human nature an unfathomable idea that people would n... See more

GEORGE BERKELEY (1685-1753) is important in philosophy through his denial of the existence of matter—a denial which he supported by a number of ingenious arguments.

Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy

Camus n'a cessé de revendiquer son goût pour les philosophes existentiels, des philosophes artistes : Plotin, Pascal, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche bien sûr, sinon de vieux contemporains Chestov ou Unamuno ;

Michel Onfray • L'ordre libertaire: La vie philosophique d'Albert Camus (French Edition)

John Henry Newman,

Joseph Bottum • An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America

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Here the Scottish philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre perceives a shift from communal ethics to a world order in which the individual has apparently become the norm. In his magnum opus After Virtue, MacIntyre explodes, among other things, the myth of modern moral freedom. Yes, we have been liberated from priests and the morality they imposed on us; but,