The Personalist Project

80 posts by Jules van Schaijik:

TitleDateCmts
Polyester Robes 2/10/17 2
Nobody but a bunch of mothers! 5/5/16 0
Being a bad witness. Lessons from the lamentation tradition 11/19/15 0
A lack of symmetry between insisting on repentance and pleading for forgiveness 11/5/15 5
A real life example of the theology of the body 10/17/15 16
Falling for robots 10/12/15 0
Starting a virtual reading circle 1/30/15 4
Redesigned website 1/23/15 2
With such friends, who needs enemies? 1/19/15 2
Parting ways 1/12/15 4
What would Newman say about the Synod? 11/17/14 18
Is all confusion evil? A Socratic thought. 10/28/14 6
The unity of objectivity and subjectivity in emotion 9/20/14 13
Austen on the need to investigate our feelings 7/31/13 3
The moral seriousness of Miss Bates 7/25/13 2
Kierkegaard turns 200 5/8/13 0
On the Pseudo-Obvious 3/11/13 2
Leg logos (aka legos) 2/22/13 0
The Christian Personalism of J.H. Newman 2/20/13 0
The abyss of leisure 2/3/13 6
Who decides? 1/26/13 11
Children are the fruit, not the product of marriage 1/9/13 1
Why gender matters 12/2/12 25
Virtual choirs & the transformative power of music 11/30/12 4
Religious Freedom under Threat: Panel & Discussion 10/22/12 6
A personalist view of literature 10/19/12 0
Escape from personality 10/2/12 0
Prozac, a consolation for atheism 8/23/12 5
To get Beauty, bring back the critics! 7/31/12 6
What his contrition has to do with my forgiveness 7/24/12 24
Persons, Friendship & Technology 7/14/12 8
Is Kierkegaard expecting too much from mere mortals? 5/10/12 6
Silence 4/17/12 4
Kierkegaard in search of solitary individuals 4/2/12 0
Fr. Barron’s take on “The Hunger Games” 3/28/12 0
The Selfhood of Mary 3/26/12 6
Phenomenology and the art of persuasion 3/20/12 2
Bonus wisdom from Alice von Hildebrand 3/12/12 17
The negative effects of ‘thinking the unthinkable’ 2/29/12 13
Do we want our politicians to be consistent? 2/23/12 53
Deceit and coercion: different means, same end 2/21/12 1
John Henry Newman on the education of adolescents 1/21/12 5
Bonhoeffer II: on the objectivity of marriage 1/5/12 0
Vaclav Havel dies at 75 12/18/11 1
The creed as a devotional act 12/12/11 0
The philosophy and politics of isolation 12/1/11 31
National holidays and government intervention 11/24/11 5
New translation of the mass: Dashed hopes? 11/16/11 8
True simplicity 11/12/11 0
The effects of thinking the unthinkable 11/5/11 1
Humbug 12/20/10 0
Paternalism in the Hippocratic Oath 11/15/10 1
If the body is still there, so is the person 11/11/10 0
In Defense of Negativity 10/27/10 2
The number 223 10/26/10 1
Are we all equal, i.e. equally worthless? 10/22/10 3
Cleansed but not saved 10/17/10 1
Truth? Who cares? 10/8/10 4
The modernity of Newman 10/4/10 0
Natural rights, witches and unicorns 9/26/10 17
Education in cyberspace? 9/22/10 0
The personalist significance of involuntary emotions 9/17/10 2
“The emperor’s new clothes” put to music! 5/11/10 5
Intimacy without love: an illustration 2/28/10 0
Between the knockers and boosters of modern culture 1/7/10 2
Cloning and the right to ignorance 12/4/09 2
Criticizing modernity 12/3/09 2
Why a theology of the body? 11/10/09 3
Man: the dressing animal 10/13/09 3
The goodness of lamenting 10/5/09 0
More on ideology 9/29/09 1
What’s wrong with ideology? 9/24/09 1
Stevenson’s wrath 8/13/09 2
Are all men looking for God? 7/6/09 3
Question 1: on John Paul II and Hugh Hefner 6/22/09 26
Question 2: on prudishness 6/22/09 24
Question 3: on concupiscence 6/22/09 0
Question 4: how sexual intimacy can be a revelation (and gift) of self 6/22/09 0
Is there any precedent for West’s views in the tradition? 6/21/09 18
Here’s hoping that West pays no attention 6/7/09 10