Certainly people like Elizabeth Anscombe (who was a student of Wittgenstein), Peter Geach, and Anthony Kenny (an ex-Catholic priest, and for that matter an ex-Catholic) would qualify as members of this stream.
Jim F.
---------- Original Message ---------- From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at illinois.edu> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] papal logic Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:51:57 -0500
[3] A third school, particularly in N. Europe-UK, that might be called "Dominican" from the religious order that has produced its principal members. Marx, Thomas, and Wittgenstein are all influences but this school rejects the -isms associated with each. The best representative to my mind is the late Herbert McCabe; his posthumous books include "The Good Life" (2005), on the currently-fashionable virtue ethics, and "On Aquinas" (2008). The British critic Terry Eagleton -- whose Yale lectures "Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate" are, as it happens, published today -- wrote in the preface to his influential "After Theory" (2003), "The influence of the late Herbert McCabe is so pervasive on my argument that it is impossible to localize."
(Chris is right about Rome and Darwin, too, and even the contretemps that occurred ca. 1950 grew out of essentially unrelated matters associated with the document Humani generis [1950] and the peculiar but interesting work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin [d. 1955], the Jesuit who was involved in the discovery of Peking Man.) --CGE
Chris Doss wrote:
>
> Here's another hilarious example of this. I went to grad school at a Catholic
> university surrounded by Catholic intellectuals. If you don't have much
> experience with American Catholic philosophers, I'll just briefly explain
> that they tend to be either irritating-as-fuck hyperconservative Thomists or
> left-leaning (on economic issues, at least) phenomenologists. Anyway the
> Thomists (all recognizable by their haircuts) are fond of decrying everybody
> who is not as conservative as them as being wishy-washy cafeteria Catholics.
>
> Until the Pope said that the Iraq War was an abomination in the eyes of God.
> Then, they started complaining about the pacifists in the Vatican.
>
>
> --- On Tue, 4/21/09, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] papal
>> logic To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Date: Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 2:56 AM
>>
>>
>> It actually works the other way as well. For instance, I have met large
>> numbers of American and European Catholics who believe that the Church's
>> position is anti-theory of evolution, because their priest is
>> anti-evolution. When I point out that the Vatican hasn't had a problem with
>> the theory of evolution since around 1950, they don't believe me.
>>
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