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GILSON AS CHRISTIAN HUMANIST

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Redpath P. A.
Studia Gilsoniana
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2012
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vol. 1
53-63
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The author suggests that the intellectual life of Étienne Gilson constituted a new humanism, that Gilson’s scholarly work was part of a new renaissance, that a new humanism that Gilson thought is demanded by the precarious civilizational crisis of the modern West after World Wars I and II. He also argues that, more than anything else, Gilson was a renaissance humanist scholar who consciously worked in the tradition of renaissance humanists before him, but did so to expand our understanding of the notion of “renaissance” scholarship and to create his own brand of Christian humanism to deal with problems distinctive to his age. The author shows the specificity of the Christian humanism that Gilson developed as part of his distinctive style of doing historical research and of philosophizing.
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Globalization, Nationalism, and the Present US Immigration Troubles

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Redpath P. A.
Studia Ełckie
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2012
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vol. 14
137-146
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The article contains analyses of the connection between the modern notion of sovereignty and problems of globalization, nationalism, and immigration. It shows (1) that such an essential con-nection exists; (2) how complicated is the issue of the relationship of sovereignty to that of politi-cal government; (3) that a rush to establish world government in our time is an impossible utopian dream. The article concludes with remarks on policies of the “progressives,” the people who seem to be pushing the US toward formation of a global government today.
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THE ESSENTIAL CONNECTION BETWEEN MODERN SCIENCE AND UTOPIAN SOCIALISM

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Redpath P. A.
Studia Gilsoniana
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2014
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vol. 3
203-220
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The chief aim of this paper is to demonstrate beyond reasonable doubt how, through an essential misunderstanding of the nature of philosophy, and science, over the past several centuries, the prevailing Western tendency to reduce the whole of science to mathematical physics unwittingly generated utopian socialism as a political substitute for metaphysics. In short, being unable speculatively, philosophically, and metaphysically to justify this reduction, some Western intellectuals re-conceived the natures of philosophy, science, and metaphysics as increasingly enlightened, historical and political forms of the evolution of human consciousness toward creation of systematic science, a science of clear and distinct ideas. In the process they unwittingly wound up reducing contemporary philosophy and Western higher education largely into tools of utopian socialist political propaganda.
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THE IMPORTANCE OF GILSON

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Redpath P. A.
Studia Gilsoniana
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2012
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vol. 1
45-52
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The author aims at answering why preserving, reading, and understanding the work of Étienne Gilson is crucial for the Western civilization if one wishes to be able to understand precisely the problems that are besetting the West and how one can best resolve them. He claims that among all the leading intellectuals of the past or present generation, no one has better diagnosed the philosophical ills of Western culture and better understood the remedy for those ills than has Étienne Gilson.
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THE NATURE OF COMMON SENSE AND HOW WE CAN USE COMMON SENSE TO RENEW THE WEST

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Redpath P. A.
Studia Gilsoniana
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2014
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vol. 3: supplement
455-484
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Since most pressing today on a global scale is to be able to unite religion, philosophy, and science into parts of a coherent civilizational whole, and since the ability to unite a multitude into parts of a coherent whole essentially requires understanding the natures of the things and the way they can or cannot be essentially related, this paper chiefly considers precisely why the modern world has been unable to effect this union. In so doing, it argues that the chief cause of this inability to unite these cultural natures has been because the contemporary world, and the West especially, has lost its understanding of philosophy and science and has intentionally divorced from essential connection to wisdom. Finally, it proposes a common sense way properly to understand these natures, reunite them to wisdom, and revive Western and global civilization.
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THE ESSENTIAL CONNECTION BETWEEN COMMON SENSE PHILOSOPHY AND LEADERSHIP EXCELLENCE

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Redpath P. A.
Studia Gilsoniana
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2014
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vol. 3: supplement
605-617
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This article argues that, strictly speaking, from its inception with the ancient Greeks and for all time, philosophy and science are identical and consist in an essential relationship between a specific type of understanding of the human person as possessed of an intellectual soul capable of being habituated and a psychologically-independent composite whole, or organization. It maintains, further, that absence of either one of the extremes of this essential relationship cannot be philosophy/science and, if mistaken for such and applied to the workings of cultural institutions, will generate anarchy within human culture and make leadership excellence impossible to achieve. Finally, it argues that only a return to this “common sense” understanding of philosophy can generate the leadership excellence that can save the West from its current state of cultural and civilizational anarchy.
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Aquinas on Philosophy as Prudent Desire, Pursuit, and Job of the Wise Man and Culture: To Understand First Principles and Causes of the Whole Truth about Everything

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Redpath P. A.
Studia Ełckie
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2024
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vol. 26
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issue 2
133-141
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This article defends the thesis that, according to St. Thomas Aquinas, when the Ancient Greeks and other Mediterranean cultures prior to them had first started to philosophize, engage in science, they had done so as parts of an individual and community team enterprise. They were convinced that all human beings have a moral duty as rational animals to philosophize-prudentially to wonder about the most universal causes about everything. Considering themselves essentially to be a ‘world-community of prudential wonderers’, they first conceived of philosophy, science, to be a psychological act of prudential wondering practiced by a world-wide community of people. In starting this organization, this world community shared a common, prudent chief aim: to help free the entire known-world from the damaging effects they had commonly recognized brute-animal ignorance causes. They were convinced that an imprudent people can never become philosophical or scientific. St. Thomas maintains that their natural desire to satisfy their wonder about the chief subject, aim, efficient and final cause of the existence, behavior, and truth of everything must have included understanding God. Having this included as part of its chief subject and aim caused them to understand the job of every philosopher chiefly to be what philosophy is for anyone who understands its proper nature: to bring into existence First Philosophy, Metaphysics’-‘the most divine and honorable science’!
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Prudence as a Calling (Vocation) to Live a Life of Perfect Virtue (Complete Happiness) in the Teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas

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Redpath P. A.
Studia Ełckie
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2024
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vol. 27
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issue 1
9-16
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This article attempts to restore uncommon common sense in the form of moral, intellectual, practical, and productive prudence and philosophical realism to the contemporary world. It refers to the position of St. Thomas Aquinas, according to which proper for someone wise is to “meditate and the divine truth, which is the origin of all truth” and include in refuting “the opposing falsehood”, refuting false claims made against religion. In the spirit and tradition of Socrates, Plato, and Aquinas, today the duty, of someone wise is to become an ‘Uncommon Commonsense Philosophical Realist’, what should also be understood as his vocation.
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Why Western Catholic Higher Education Needs to Recover Its Soul

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Redpath P. A.
Rocznik Tomistyczny
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2019
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vol. 8
31-36
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As the title of this article suggests, my main aim in writing it is to make as precisely intelligible as I can how soul-less Catholic education” and “soul-less Catholic educators” has been chief causes of the widespread disappearance of Catholic higher educational institutions from the contemporary West.
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Small Mistakes in the Beginning: Stanley L. Jaki: Arch-Defender of Christian Civilization of Freedom, and Somewhat U nwitting Obstacle to It?: An American/Gilsonian Perspective

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Redpath P. A.
Rocznik Tomistyczny
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2023
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vol. 1
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issue 12
357-364
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Prezentowany artykuł dotyczy tematu odejścia od filozofii rozumianej po Gilsonowsku jako bezinteresownego poznawania prawdy o otaczającym nas świecie oraz na wynikających z tego konsekwencjach (także w odniesieniu do nauczania filozofii). Artykuł wyraża przekonanie, że Gilsonowska koncepcja jedności doświadczenia filozoficznego ma swoje uzasadnienie, oraz że filozofię powinniśmy traktować jako punkt wyjścia i podstawę wszelkich nauk. Poglądy te są w artykule wyrażone w tonie polemicznym, gdyż sam artykuł jest polemiką z poglądami znanego filozofa, matematyka i teologa, Stanley’a Jaki, który uznaje, że współczesna fizyka jest obecnie jedyną – w sensie ścisłym – nauką. Autor, dyskutując z tym stanowiskiem, zwraca przede wszystkim uwagę na to, że wszelka nauka powinna być zorientowana mądrościowo (to znaczy powinna pytać o pierwsze przyczyny – principia) wszelkich składników dostrzeganej rzeczywistości.
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