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The Josias Podcast, Episode XXII: Love, Hope, and Integralism in the New Testament

The encyclicals Deus caritas est and Spe salvi raise two opposite objections against Christianity:  Christian love seems too altruistic, opposed to one’s own happiness; while  Christian hope seems too egoistic, opposed to proper concern for temporal society. The editors discuss these objections with New Testament scholar John Kincaid. They argue that a true understanding of the New Testament demands a full understanding of the common good (showing that love is neither altruism nor egoism, but communion in the good), and a deep understanding of the relation of the temporal and the eternal (showing that hope for  eternal happiness and peace does not make us indifferent to the temporal happiness and peace, which are a participated likeness of the eternal). Integralism provides precisely the account of the common good, and of the relation of temporal and eternal that is necessary.

Bibliography

Music: “Là ci darem la mano,” from W.A. Mozart’s Don Giovanni, sung by Barbara Bonney and Thomas Hampson, accompanied by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under the direction of Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

Header Image: Max Slevogt, Don Giovannis Be­geg­nung mit dem steinernen Gast, 1906.

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The Josias Podcast, Episode XXI: We Live in a Society

We live in a society in which the few live in excess, while the many live in miserable and wretched conditions. We live in a society in which the poor are defenseless against the inhumanity of employers and the unbridled greed of competitors. We live in a society in which these evils are compounded by a devouring usury practiced by avaricious and grasping men. We live in a society in which innocent children are murdered in abortion clinics. We live in a society in which the sin of Sodom is paraded with open pride and enjoys the favor of the laws. We live in a society in which depravity exults; science is impudent; liberty, dissolute. We live in a society in which the holiness of the sacred is despised; sound doctrine is perverted; and errors of all kinds spread boldly. We live in a society in which the divine authority of the Church is opposed and her rights shorn off. We live in a society in which by institutions and by the example of teachers, the minds of the youth are corrupted. We live in a society… We live in a society? Do we actually live in a society? What sense does it make to call the clownish chaos of our lamentable times a “society”? The editors are joined by P.J. Smith of southern Indiana to discuss these and related questions.

Bibliography and Filmography

Music: “Vesti la Giubba” from Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, sung by Luciano Pavarotti.

Header Image: Joaquin Phoenix in Joker (2019)

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The Josias Podcast, Episode XX: Eric Voegelin

Continuing a series of reflections on important 20th century critiques of modernity and liberalism that has included episodes on Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue and Leo Strauss’s Natural Right and History, the editors are joined again by Gabriel Sanchez to discuss Eric Voegelin’s The New Science of Politics. They discuss Voegelin’s critique of positivism, the problem of representation, and the thesis that modernity is “gnostic”.

Bibliography

Music: Also sprach Zarathustra, by Richard Strauss.

Header Image: Photograph of a Tree in the Mist, by Pater Edmund

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The Josias Podcast, Episode XIX: Justice

Justice, according to St. Thomas, is the perpetual and constant will to render each one his right. Distributive justice, commutative justice, potential parts, quasi-integral parts, debt, cannibalism—in this episode, the editors cover it all.

Bibliography

Music: “An die Musik“, by Franz Schubert, performed by Matthias Goerne (baritone) and Helmut Deutsch (piano).

Header Image: Circles in a Circle (1923), by Wassily Kandinsky (detail).

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The Josias Podcast, Episode XVIII: Revenge

The Josias Editors discuss punishment and the good of order in a teleological universe.

Bibliography

Music: “Bin ich nun frei Wirklich frei,” Das Rheingold, Richard Wagner. Vienna Philharmonic, George Solti, Gustav Neidlinger as Alberich.

Header Image: Alberich, by Arthur Rackham.

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Ang Integrismo sa Tatlong Pangungusap

Ang Integrismo Catolico ay isang tradisyon ng kaisipan na itinatanggi ang paghihiwalay ng liberalismo ng politika mula sa pakikialam sa huling layunin ng buhay ng tao, at naniniwala naman na dapat patnubayan ng pamamahalang politikal ang tao patungo sa huling layuning niya. Ngunit dahil nahahati sa dalawa ang layunin ng buhay ng tao – isang pansamantala o temporal, at isang walang-hanggan – naniniwala ang integrismo na may dalawa ring kapangyarihan na namamahala sa tao: ang kapangyarihang temporal, at ang kapangyarihang espiritwal. At dahil naman ang layuning pansamantala ay nakapasailalim sa layuning walang-hanggan, nararapat lamang na ang kapangyarihang temporal ay ipasailalim rin sa kapangyarihang espiritwal.

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The Josias Podcast, Episode XVII: Empire

Does natural law demand a world government?

Bibliography

Music: Johannes Brahms, Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Berlin Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel.

Header Image: The Spanish Riding School in Vienna.

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Integralism at Church Life Journal

Timothy Troutner recently published a thought-provoking essay in Church Life Journal, a publication of the the Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame, in which he argues against Catholic Integralism. Our own Pater Edmund Waldstein responded in the same publication, defending integralism. Another response was posted by the integralist blog Abrenuntio. The responses take the opportunity to make some clarifications of the integralist position.

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The Josias Podcast, Episode XV: Deconstructing Integralism

The editors return and deconstruct integralism by taking on the post-structuralism of Jacques Derrida, but in the end discover they were metaphysicians all along. Along the way, the discussion veers into Nietzsche, 19th century interpretations of Bach, internet meme culture, vaccinations and the anti-vax movement, Jacob Klein, David Foster Wallace, and so much more.

Bibliography

  • Roland Barthes, Elements of Semiology, 1916;
  • Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text, 1973;
  • Jacques Derrida, “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences,” in Writing and Difference, 1967;
  • Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology, 1967;
  • Jacques Derrida, On the Name, 1995;
  • Martin Heidegger “Nietzsche’s Word: God is Dead” (1943) in Off the Beaten Track, 2002;
  • Joshua Kates, Fielding Derrida: Philosophy, Literary Criticism, History, and the Work of Deconstruction, 2008;
  • Jacob Klein, Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra, 1968 [Reprint: New York: Dover, 1992];
  • Jacob Klein, “Phenomenology and the History of Science,” 1940;
  • Claude Levi-Strauss, The Savage Mind, 1962;
  • E. Milco, “Michel Foucault and Thomas Aquinas in Dialogue on the Basis and Consummation of Intelligibility,” 2013;
  • Friedrich Nietzsche, “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense,” 1896;
  • Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics, 1916;
  • Michel Serres, “The Algebra of Literature,” 1979;
  • Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist. “Charles de Koninck, Jacob Klein, and Socratic Logocentrism”;
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 1922.

Music:

Johann Sebastian Bach – Chaconne, Partita No. 2 BWV 1004

Header Image: Franz Rösel von Rosenhof, Wolf und Fuchs.

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The Josias Podcast, Episode XIV: The Virtue of Fortitude

A familiar voice returns after a long absence. Three voices discuss what it means to be brave, the cowardice of Dr. Proudie, the softness of clerics more generally, the brilliance of Monteverdi, and the exquisite comedy of Plato’s Laches.

Bibliography

Music:Claudio Monteverdi, Sanctorum Meritis II, from Selva morale e spirituale (text)

Header Image: Leonardo da Vinci, Dragon Striking down Lion 

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