Bibliography

• Pope Leo XIII, Libertas praestantissimum (1888).
• Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist., “Contrasting Concepts of Freedom,” The Josias (2016).

Music: Gustav Mahler, Lied Des Verfolgten Im Turm, from Des Knaben Wunderhorn. Performed by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, and the London Symphony Orchestra under the direction of George Szell.

Header Image: Raphael Statt, O.Cist. Beflügelter Schritt.

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Bibliography

• Pope Benedict XVI, Deus caritas est, 2005.
• Pope Benedict XVI, Spe salvi , 2007.
• Brant Pitre, Michael P. Barber, and John A. Kincaid, Paul, a New Covenant Jew: Rethinking Pauline Theology, 2019.
• John Barclay, Paul and the Gift, 2015.
• Henri de Lubac, Catholicism: Christ and the Common Destiny of Man, 1947/1988.
• Charles de Koninck, “In Defence of Saint Thomas: A Reply to Father Eschmann’s Attack on the Primacy of the Common Good,” in: Laval théologique et philosophique (1945).
• Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist., Integralism: The Breadth and Depth of Catholic Social Teaching (Book Proposal, 2019).

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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Bibliography and Filmography

• Henri Grenier, Moral Philosophy, §§ 1032-1036.
• Petrus Hispanus, “Notes on Right and Law,” The Josias, 2017.
• Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum, 1891.
• Pierre Manent, “Modern Democracy as a System of Separations,” Journal of Democracy 14.1 (2003).
• Todd Phillips (director), Joker, 2019.
• Snowpire, JOKER – Starring George Costanza from Seinfeld, 2019.

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

Header Image: Joaquin Phoenix in Joker (2019)

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Bibliography

• Eric Voegelin, The New Science of Politics.
• Gabriel S. Sanchez, “MacIntyre, Strauss, and Some Voegelin.”

Music: Also sprach Zarathustra, by Richard Strauss.

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

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Bibliography

• Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, IIa IIae qq. 58, 61, 79, 80
• Plato, The Republic, especially Book I
• Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
• Carl Hoffman, Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller’s Tragic Quest for Primitive Art
• David Graeber, Debt: The First 5000 Years
• The Paraphasic, “Notes on the Internet as a Social Space“
• The Paraphasic, “A Rumination on the Foundation of Civil Society“

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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Bibliography

• Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, II-II Q. 60; II-II Q 64, A 2; II-II Q. 108.
• Plato, Gorgias.

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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Bibliography

• Pope Pius XI, Ubi Arcano, 1922.
• Henri Grenier, World Government is Required by Natural Law, The Josias, 2015.
• Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist., Secularized Fraternity or Solidarity and the Failure of the European Union, Sancrucensis, 2016.
• Idem, French Nationalism, The Karlskirche, the Empire, and the Meaning of Europe, Sancrucensis, 2016.
• Idem, Empire I: the Philosophical Poet, Sancrucensis, 2012.
• Idem, Empire II: Herodotus, Aristotle and Jokes, Sancrucensis, 2012.
• Idem, Empire III: Gustavo Dudamel at the Spanish Riding School; or Virgil and the Horses, Sancrucensis, 2012.
• Rafael de Arízaga, Sovereignty and the Supreme Power, Pax in Bello, 2019.

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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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

• performed by Hillary Hahn;
• arranged for piano by J. Brahms for Left hand performed by Daniil Trifonov;
• Bach-Busoni performed by Benjamin Grosvenor;
• arranged for piano by J. Brahms performed on harpsichord by Jean Rondeau;

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

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Bibliography

• Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, IIa-IIae 123-140.
• Plato, Laches.
• Josef Pieper, The Four Cardinal Virtues.
• Anthony Trollope,Barchester Towers 

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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Pater Edmund talks to Gabriel Sanchez about Leo Strauss’s defense of natural right against historicism and positivism. The discuss questions such as: Who is Leo Strauss and why should integralists care about him? Was he esoterically a nihilist? Why did he criticize Thomists? Is he better than Alasdair MacIntyre?

Bibliogaphy

• Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1953.
  Idem, “Introduction to Political Philosophy: Plato’s Meno,” Lecture Course, 1966.
• Idem, “An Unspoken Prologue to a Public Lecture at St. John’s [In Honor of Jacob Klein, 1899-1978],” Interpretation 7.3 (1978).
• Seth Benardete, Encounters and Reflections, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2002.
• Jacob Klein, Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1968 [Reprint: New York: Dover, 1992].
• Idem, “History and the Liberal Arts,” The Saint John’s Review 47.2 (2003).
• Gladden J. Pappin, “The Mutual Concerns of Leo Strauss and His Catholic Contemporaries: Passerin d’Entrèves, McCoy, Simon,” in: Geoffrey M. Vaughan (ed.), Leo Strauss and His Catholic Readers, Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2018, pp. 137-166.
• Gabriel Sanchez, “Have the Principles of the Right been Discredited? Leo Strauss’s Rome and Ours,” The Josias (2014).
• Idem, “MacIntyre, Strauss, and Some Voegelin,” Opus Publicum (2018).
• Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist, “Leo Strauss’s Objections to Thomism,” Sancrucensis (2013).
• Idem, “Die griechische Logistik und die Entstehung der Algebra,” Sancrucensis (2016).

Music: Morten Lauridsen, O Magnum Mysterium.

Header Image: Matteo di Giovanni, Massacre of the Innocents (detail).

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Bibliography and Links:

• Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist., “Reasoning is worse than scolding,” Sancrucensis  (blog), Nov. 8, 2015;
• Josef Pieper, The Four Cardinal Virtues (1954);
• Charles De Koninck, “General Standards and Particular Situations in Relation to the Natural Law,” Laval théologique et philosophique (1950);
• James Gaines, “The Art of the Feud,” The Guardian; 
• James Gaines, Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment (2006).

Header image: William Russel Flint, Penelope Bringing out the Bow and Quiver (detail).

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Links

• The Josias Podcast, Episode VIII: Virtue 
• Felix de St. Vincent and Brett Favras, Integralism, MacIntyre, and Final Ends: Towards a Secular Account of Christian Politics, The Josias (2018)
• Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist, The Mirror of the Benedict Option, The Josias  (2018)

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Music for this episode is the “Sanctus” from the Missa Honorificentia Populi Nostri, by Peter Kwasniewski. The header image shows church bells in Nowa Huta, Poland.

Bibliography

• Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist., “Politics and the Liturgical Movement,” Sancrucensis  (blog), Feb. 8, 2014;
• Peter Kwasniewski, “A Defense of Liturgy as ‘Carolingian Court Ritual’,” New Liturgical Movement, Jan. 30, 2017;
• Jonathan Culbreath, “Her Sacred Enterprise: Liturgy and the Common Good,” Peregrine Magazine, April 11, 2018;
• Adrian Vermeule, “Liturgy of Liberalism” review of Lyszard Legutko , The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies, First Things, Jan. 2017;
• Dom Karl Wallner, O. Cist., “The Profanation of the Sacred and the Sacralisation of the Profane,” Aug. 31, 2016;
• Erik Peterson, “The Book of the Angels,” in Theological Tractates;
• Romano Guardini, The Spirit of the Liturgy, 1918;
• Charles De Koninck, On the Primacy of the Common Good: Against the Personalists.

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Bibliography

• Andrew Willard Jones, Before Church and State: A Study of Social Order in the Sacramental Kingdom of St. Louis IX (Steubenville: Emmaus Academic, 2017).
• Francis Fukuyama, The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011).
• R. W. Southern, Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages, vol. 2 of The Penguin History of the Church (London: Penguin, 1970).
• Adrian Vermeule, “Some Questions about Sovereignty for Andrew Willard Jones,” Mirror of Justice (blog), June 10, 2018.
• Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist, “An Integralist Manifesto,” review of Andrew Willard Jones, Before Church and State (q.v.), First Things (October 2017).

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The editors had so much fun that the time slipped by without even getting to the supernatural virtues or the post-enlightenment revolt against virtue.

Bibliography

• Aristotle,  Nichomachean Ethics.
• Plato,
  • Phaedrus.
  • The Republic.
  • Meno.
• St. Thomas Aquinas,
  • Summa Theologiae,  Ia-IIæ, Q 49-89 (“Treatise on Habits”).
  • Summa Theologiae, IIa-IIæ, Q 47-122 (“Treatise on Prudence and Justice”).
  • Summa Theologiae,  IIa-IIæ, Q 123-170 (“Treatise on Fortitude and Temperance”).
• Duane Berquist, Lectures on Ethics.
• Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist., The Good, The Highest Good, and the Common Good, The Josias (2015).

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The theme of today’s episode is closely linked to our project at The Josias, as we write in our About page, “A truly Catholic account of politics cannot be understood except with reference to the whole perennial wisdom of practical and speculative philosophy, and to the integral tradition of Sacred Theology.” Today we contemplate the “vertiginous heights” of Sacred Theology.

Bibliography

• St. Anselm of Cantebury, Cur Deus Homo.
• St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, IIIa Q 48.
• Norbert Hoffmann, “Atonement and the Ontological Coherence Between the Cross and the Trinity,” in: Toward a Civilization of Love, trans. Erasmo Leivo (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1985) 213-66.
• Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist., Desire, Deicide, and Atonement: René Girard and St. Thomas Aquinas, Sancrucensis (2016).
• Michael Maria Waldstein, Harmony and the Scriptures: Lenten Reflections on Harnoncourt and Bach, First Things (Web Exclusive, 2017).

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Bibliography

• Alan Fimister, Robert Schuman: Neo-Scholastic Humanism and the Reunification of Europe (Brussels: Peter Lang, 2008).
• Alan Fimister, Interview: Catholic Origins of the European Union Zenit (2008).
• Petrus Hispanus, The Primary Political Question: A Response to Milco on Liberalism, The Josias (2016).
• Pope Leo XIII, Au milieu des sollicitudes (1892).
• Roberto de Mattei, The Ralliement of Leo XIII: A Pastoral Experience That Moved Away from Doctrine, Rorate Cæli (2015).
• Pius VI, Quare lacrymae (1793).
• Adrian Vermeule, Ralliement: Two Distinctions, The Josias (2018).
• Felix de St. Vincent, Four Catholic Political Postures: Lessons from Leo XIII and Ralliement, The Josias (2017).
• Edmund Waldstein, Ralliement! Ralliement! Ralliement!, Sancrucensis (2017)
• Edmund Waldstein, Catholic Action and Ralliement, The Josias (2016).
• Edmund Waldstein, The Politics of Nostalgia, Sancrucensis (2014).

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All this and much more!

Bibliography for pts 1 & 2:

• Susannah Black, “On Presley Progressivism“
• Patrick Deneen, “A Catholic Showdown Worth Watching,” The American Conservative (2014)
• Patrick Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed (Yale, 2016)
• Ryszard Legutko, The Demon in Democracy (Encounter, 2016)
• Thomas Hobbes, The Leviathan [1651], (Hackett, 1994)
• The Complete Essays of Montaigne, ed. Donald Frame (Stanford, 1958)
• John Henry Newman, The Idea of a University [1852], ed. Martin Svaglic (Notre Dame, 1984)
• John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua [1864], ed. Ian Ker (Penguin, 1994)
• John Henry Newman, “Biglietto Speech” (1879)
• John Rawls, Political Liberalism [1993], (Columbia, 2005)
• Richard Rorty, Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (Cambridge, 1989)
• Gabriel Sanchez, “Illiberal Catholicism One Year On,” Front Porch Republic (2015)
• Judith Shklar, Ordinary Vices (Harvard, 1984)
• Felix de St. Vincent, “Four Catholic Political Postures,” The Josias (2017)
• Edmund Waldstein, “Contrasting Concepts of Freedom,” The Josias (2016)

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The philosophers have only interpreted liberals in various ways. The point, however, is to own them.

Wherein liberalism is said in many ways, and revealed in Strauss’s war on the Redemptorists, and whether or not the Abbot of Heiligenkreuz should have the power of life or death over local peasants. The hosts are joined by Felix de St Vincent, for a rousing discussion over what liberalism is, when it began, and whether it is necessary to be “cruel to be kind, in the right measure.”

Stay tuned for part 2 where we determine whether opposing liberalism means embracing cruelty, discuss Cardinal Newman’s definition of a gentleman, and much more.

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