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		<title>A More Open Metaphysics: Implications for Political Philosophy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have to learn to move forward in our thought by trying to honestly perceive reality and to openheartedly respond to it while becoming aware of the distortions of the preconceptions we always bring to such tasks. This is a logical development of the insight we have inherited from Aquinas and a few of his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom and Structure in Human Life &#8212; &#8220;Values Can&#8217;t be Drawn from Facts&#8221; and Other Old Philosophers&#8217; Tales</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re told that David Hume proved that values can&#8217;t be drawn from facts. Most recently, I read of this alleged proof in an interesting and mostly unobjectionable book about the relationship between Protestant ways of reading texts and the origins of science: The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science by Peter Harrison [Cambridge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intentionality as the Guide to Philosophical Thinking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw this quote on the Internet recently: I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light. [Sir Isaac Newton] Newton knew how to think. In Thomistic terms, serious thinking is an intentional process, that is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom and Structure in Human Life &#8212; Americans Govern in Order to Engage in Politics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In one of his novels about the American Empire, Gore Vidal quotes the American-English novelist Henry James as claiming, circa 1900, that it was the United States which was corrupting political systems around the world. The Irish political scientist, William E.H. Lecky, wrote in the 1890s of the great divide in American morality, the citizens [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom and Structure in Human Life &#8212; The Never-ending Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be writing articles on some aspects of politics and the history of government which interest me and doing so in terms of my concepts of created being. I&#8217;ll concentrate on American politics and will cover some interesting phenomena often seen as indicative of conspiracies. These articles will reflect both some of my reading of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abstractions in Modern Thought and Art</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve come to the position that created being exists across a spectrum going from abstract to concrete or particular. A thing, a particularized form of being, still has its abstract being in it the way that a vase has still the raw materials of its clay and glazing. In fact, as you penetrate the stuff [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom and Structure in Human Life &#8212; How Grotesque the Good when It&#8217;s Developing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While thinking of the suffering endured by patients in the modern medical quest for miracles, I grew depressed and sought to cheer myself up by thoughts of hospices which allow human beings a bit of dignity as they approach death. And so it was that I turned to Flannery O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s insightful and Thomistically funny introduction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom and Structure in Human Life &#8212; What Can We Say About the Body of Christ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to propose a full-blooded organic understanding of the Body of Christ. This is intended as an expansion of the teachings of St. Paul rather than a new way of thought about that Body. It would seem appropriate to expand those teachings now that we have a deep and wide knowledge of organisms, including [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://loydfueston.com/?p=657</link>
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		<title>Freedom and Structure in Human Life &#8212; A Thought Makes It Possible to Think It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nearly all human beings, nearly all the time, think only thoughts which have been thought already within their sphere of knowledge, typically some level and region of a particular culture. Few and far between are the identifiable creative thinkers, though we must remember that creative thinkers are also members of specific communities which provide the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does the Christian Church Need a Home?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger noted years ago, western Christians built Western Civilization as a home for the churches united to Rome. St. Augustine and St. Benedict and St. Gregory the Great laid the foundations and many others built upon those foundations. For centuries, Western Civilization was a home for the Catholic Church and then for [...]]]></description>
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