The Guild Review

Dear reader: I apologize in advance for the disjointed, rambling nature of my next two posts, but my vanity tells me that they are interesti...

Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus is like Thus Spake Zarathustra , but with a sense of humor. Sartor Resartus is the effort of an imagin...

And to conclude Josef Pieper Week here on the Guild Review...continued from Part IV : Our topic, however, as we said, is not man’s relations...

...continued from Part III : Now, in a few closing remarks, we must speak of justice’s limits. Even “restitution” which is always renewed do...

...continued from Part II : Before I do that, however, one more rather aphoristic observation on another point of the ancient doctrine of ju...

...continued from Part I : Obviously, in such times as these we cannot dispense ourselves from discussing the most profound and ultimate jus...

Note: The other day I was going through some old files from my time in Germany and I found this translation of a lecture by Josef Pieper on ...

A contempt of the world, which is dominated by fear of weariness and of sorrow, of disease and of old age, is but an asceticism of the blasé...

At the end of his post on the movie Pi , Aaron briefly mentions agnosticism, and suggests that most self-declared agnostics have simply neve...

The other day I was kneeling in my pew before the start of mass. Having said all I had to say to God, I sat down to await the entrance of th...