Win or Lose, Stir Up Your Soul With the Sporting Life
On Wealth and Poverty (from www.jesuit.org/images/docs/91pfXA.pdf)
Beginning in Gladness from The New Pantagruel
On What is Not Forgotten from The New Pantagruel
Listen to Schall! (Windows Media)
The
Mind That Is Catholic
In the end, this is the Catholic mind, to hold the truth because
it knows that it is itself mind open to what is, to what is true from whatever
source its evidence might arise, even from common sense, even from reason, yes,
even from the revelation handed down to us.
On
Choosing Not To See
We can think conceptually
of a world we create for ourselves that is not itself connected with the world,
“pretty” or “sublime,” that is revealed to us by our senses.
In this conceptual world, we define what is good and what is evil by denying
that such realities are discoverable and not ours to formulate. Deep in our
minds, as Johnson told us, we seek to “hide things from ourselves.”
This is what happens when we choose “not to see.” We have the uncanny
power, because of our evil habits according to which we seek to live, to establish
our own content of what is called “wisdom” or “happiness.”
It is this power that, more than anything else, rules the modern world. The
only proper anecdote is our ability to “know ourselves,” to be able
to properly distinguish between what is “pretty” and what is “sublime,”
what is true and what is false, not of our own making.
Schall
on Faith, Reason and Politics: On Catholic Political Philosophy (Part 1)
Catholicism is not a political movement, but it is concerned with the highest
things. Still it also recognizes that some regimes are better than others and
understands principles by which such distinction between good and bad regimes
can be established. It likewise recognizes and defends the legitimacy of the
philosophical consideration of human things.
Schall
on Faith, Reason and Politics: On Catholic Political Philosophy (Part 2)
Philosophy and political philosophy seek to know reality, what is. This seeking
is what the human mind is for, to know the truth of things. That is, the mind
seeks to be conformed to what reality presents to it. In the pursuit of this
knowledge, certain limits are continually reached that philosophy only has some
more or less informed opinion about their truth. But philosophy rightly seeks
to formulate questions and possible answers to these questions. It has an awareness
of the insufficiency of some of its own answers. It is curious about this insufficiency.
Crisis Magazine: read Schall's monthly column
Redemptor
Hominis: After Twenty-Six Years (HPR May 2005)
The Redeemer of Man is concerned with
whether we
see our freedom based in our own will
or in the objective truth of things.
Ratzinger
on Europe (HPR Jan 2005)
All Inner
Worldly Changes, Both for Good and for Ill, Originate in the Souls of the Dons,
Both Academic and Clerical.
Ratzinger
on the Modern Mind (HPR Oct 1997)
Ecological
Enthusiasts Attempt to Combine Liberation Theology
with Western Academic Relativism and Eastern Mysticism.
Commencement Address
Delivered to the Graduating Class
Ave Maria College, Ypsilanti, Michigan, May 6, 2005
ON TESTING THE TEST
On the Kind of “Work” Metaphysicians and Doctors of the Church Do
“PLATO’S
CHARM”: ON THE “AUDIENCE” OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Published in Fides Quaerens Intellectum, II (Spring 2003), 269-84.
James V. Schall on Natural Law
JUSTICE:
THE MOST TERRIBLE OF THE VIRTUES
Published in Journal of Markets & Morals, 7 (Fall, 2004). 409-20.
On
Teaching the Important Things
An Ignatius Press
Classic selection from chapter five of Another Sort of Learning (1988)
On
Leisure and Culture
Why Human Things Exist and Why They Are “Unimportant”
Modern Age, 46 (Fall, 2004), 326-32.
AQUINAS
AND THE DEFENSE OF ORDINARY THINGS
On “What Common Men Call Common Sense”
The Annual Aquinas Lecture Presented at the University of St. Thomas
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada (January 28, 2004)
When
War Must Be the Answer
Policy
Review (Dec 2004)
Schall
on Chesterton: "Existence: Cherish It!"
Gilbert Magazine, 8 (October/November, 2004), 11-12.
On
Being Contrary for its Own Sake
New Pantagruel 1.4 <http://www.newpantagruel.com/issues/1.4/>
“THE
WHOLE RISK FOR A HUMAN BEING”:
On the Insufficiency of Apollo
Logos,
7 (Spring, 2004), 14-29.
ON
THE PROSPECT OF PARADISE ON EARTH
in Truth Matters: Essays in Honor of Jacques Maritain,
edited by John G. Trapani
(Washington: American Maritain Association/The Catholic University of America
Press, 2004), 12-25.
Reading
for Clerics
Homiletic and Pastoral Review, CIV (February, 2004), 46-53.
On
the things that depend upon philosophy
Motions: University of San Diego School of Law 39 (October 2003),
6-7.
"Possessed
of Both a Revelation and a Reason"
Published in A Thomistic Tapestry: Essays in Memory of Etienne Gilson,
edited by Peter Redpath (Value Books Series; Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002), 177-91.
A
Meditation on Evil
The Aquinas Review, 7 (#1, 2000). 25-41.
On
the Death of Plato
The American Scholar, 65 (Summer, 1996). 401-15.
The
Pious & the War: Iraq and justice
National Review Online, February 13, 2003.
Islam
Will Not Be the Loser
Catholic Dossier, 8 (Jan./Feb., 2002), 8-14.
On
the Justice and Prudence of This War
The Catholic University Law Review, 51 (Fall, 2001), 1-13.
What kind of a war is it? (2001)
The
Newness of The New Jerusalem
Published in The Chesterton Review, XXVIII (Winter, 2002), 503-19.
Truth
in the Differences
Published in This Rock, 13 (December, 2002), 10-13.
The
Liberal Arts
A Student’s Guide to Liberal Arts, ed. William T, Stancil (Kansas City:
Rockhurst University Press, 2003), Chapter I, “What Are the Liberal Arts?” pp.
1-19.
On
the Joys and Travails of Thinking
New Foreword to 1998 Edition of A. C. Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life:
Its Spirit, Conditions, and Methods [1923] (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic
University of America Press, 1998), pp. vii-xvi.
On
"Merely Being Intelligent": Canavan's Views and Reviews
A Moral Enterprise: Politics, Reason, and the Human Good - Essays
in Honor of Francis Canavan, eds. Kenneth L. Grasso and Robert P. Hunt
(Wilmington: ISI Books, 2002), Chapter XVII, pp. 321-38.
Belloc
on the Character of Enduring Things
The Saint Austin Review, 2 (November, 2002), 11-13.
Remarks by James V. Schall,
S. J., Professor, Department of Government, on the Occasion of Receiving the
Bunn Medal, Teaching Award designated by Graduating Seniors, College of Arts
and Sciences, Georgetown University, Tropaia (University Awards) Exercises,
May 21, 2004.
A Lecture delivered at Theology on Tap, Bridgeport, Ct., May 2003; at Wyoming
School of Theology, August, 2003.
Vital Speeches, LXVIII(June
1, 2002), 508-12.
Lecture delivered at Northern Virginia Community College, April 11, 2002.
On
the Sum Total of Human Happiness
Lecture Delivered in Classical Philosophy
Lecture Series
Published in New Blackfriars, 83 (May, 2002), 232-42.
William Rossner, S. J. Lecture,
Delivered at Rockhurst University, Kansas City, Missouri, February 28, 2002.
On Catholicism
Catholicism
and "the Truth of Things"
Homiletic and Pastoral Review, CII (May, 2002),
26-30.
Homiletic and Pastoral Review, CII (October, 2001), 15-23.
On
Being Faithful to Revelation
Homiletic and Pastoral Review,
CI (March, 2001), 22-31.
The
Path to Rome
Canadian C. S. Lewis Journal,
#100, (Autumn, 2001), 16-24.
On
the Purpose of "This World"
New Oxford Review, LXIX (February, 2002), 20-26.
Beyond
Description: On the Most Wonderful Book
Fellowship of Catholic Scholars
Quarterly, 25 (September 2002), 8-14.
On Political Philosophy
Why
is Political Philosophy Different?
Gregorianum, (Roma) 84 (#2, 2003), 419-30.
On
the Paradoxical Place of Political Philosophy in the Structure of Reality
Perspectives on Political Science.
From
Curiosity to Pride
Faith and the Life of the Intellect, ed. Curtis L. Hancock and Brendan
Sweetman (Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 2003), Chapter
9, pp. 187-209.
Fides
et Ratio: Approaches to a Roman Catholic Political Philosophy
The Review of Politics.
Schall elsewhere on the Web
One
Culture, After All
National Review Online, June 2, 2001
Heart
of Darkness
National Review Online, April 14, 2001
The
State That Justifies
Religion and Liberty 5.1 (Jan/Feb 1995).
Natural
Law and Economics
Religion and Liberty 3.3 (May/Jun 1993).
Roman Catholic Political Philosophy (Lanham, MD.: Lexington Books, 2004)
A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning (Free PDF from ISI Books) [HTML version]
Reason,
Revelation, and Human Affairs: Selected Writings
of James V. Schall,
Edited with an Introduction by Marc Guerra
(Lanham, MD.: Lexington Books, 2001), 188 pp. $50 Hardback.
(Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield, 15200 NBN Way, Bldg. B, Blue Ridge
Summit, PA. 17214).
On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs (Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2001).
Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: Volume 20 (Ignatius Press, 2001).
Schall on Chesterton: Timely Essays on Timeless Paradoxes (Catholic University of America Press, 2000).
Essays (New Series): Philosophical, Political, Economic
Read more Schall here: "Another Sort of Learning" Web site [High bandwidth] [Low bandwidth]
