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Published in 2002, by an eminent professor of philosophy (who died in 2014), this is a professional work of analytic philosophy written for readers with prior experience in the subject. Although the book may seem somewhat dated, it is always worth be ...more
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Plato is unquestionably one of the most significant of the ancient Greek philosophers. Sometimes philosophy itself has even been described as just footnotes to Plato’s writings. The author has a scholarly expertise in the ancient Greek world, so she Plato is unquestionably one of the most significant of the ancient Greek philosophers. Sometimes philosophy itself has even been described as just footnotes to Plato’s writings. The author has a scholarly expertise in the ancient Greek world, so she is particularly well placed to explain why Plato should still matter to us.

Summarising Plato’s views in seven chapters, the book focuses on general themes which still resonate in contemporary thinking. This includes issues such as the meaning of life, democracy and government, fame, love and aesthetic appreciation. Plato does indeed have some interesting things to say on those topics, and parallels are drawn with contemporary affairs.

The scholarly attention to detail is particularly well expressed, but that does lead to a somewhat ‘dry’ style in places. It also means that readers encounter a wide range of references to figures from Plato’s era. I wondered at times if there was too much detail (?). For example, rather than telling us that both Callicles and Thrasymachus argued for the position that ‘right is might’ (chapter 3) perhaps readers only needed to be presented with one version of the argument and one ancient named figure?

While the book is focused mainly on the issue of why Plato should matter to us today, one aspect of that question is why of all the Greek philosophers, it should be Plato that we turn to and read. In the ancient world, people could engage with schools like Stoicism or Epicureanism. In the medieval era it was the philosopher Aristotle who was typically known as ‘the’ philosopher. So, given that there are alternative philosophers, why is it Plato that modern readers should spend time engaging with?

Textually, the book was well presented. There were some helpful notes, maps and indices. However, I think it would also have benefited from some guidance to readers on how to actually pronounce classical names like ‘Thucydides.’

Overall, this is a well-selected set of ideas from Plato which are thoughtfully and credibly presented, with appropriate academic references. However, the style is somewhat scholarly and that may have a bearing on which readers will enjoy the book the most. ...more

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The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism
by Fritjof Capra

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This is one of those books that sounds like a great idea, comparing similar claims within Eastern mysticism and modern Science, and then concluding that they are saying similar things. And one of the implications of that is astonishment that ancient This is one of those books that sounds like a great idea, comparing similar claims within Eastern mysticism and modern Science, and then concluding that they are saying similar things. And one of the implications of that is astonishment that ancient mysticism could somehow be so inline with modern science.

Yes, on the surface there are indeed some similarities in what some Eastern mystics and some scientists say. But there are also a lot of dissimilarities, and there are areas where similarities only become apparent if particular interpretations are assumed, and others are discounted. So, this means that the claims of the book are potentially at risk of ‘cherry picking’ and ‘sampling’ biases.

We can see this issues in the way that ‘Eastern mysticism’ is defined in terms of ‘the religious philosophies of Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism (where)… the basic features of their worldview are the same.’ in chapter 1 (p19). But is that really a fair or accurate description of Eastern mysticism. Take the Eastern school known as Charvaka, which advanced various sceptical views and insisted on a type of materialism as its epistemology. Isn’t that the complete opposite of the more esoteric claims of Eastern mysticism that the book wants to discuss and align with quantum physics? So, yes there are similarities, as long as we leave out of consideration the inconvenient evidence sets which say the opposite of the thesis.

Another set of issues arise when we think about the different epistemologies being deployed by scientists and mystics and the way that all the issues are confused by reference to what each thinks they are ‘experiencing.’

When scientists ‘see’ that something is so, their ‘seeing’ is generally directly related to something which they think they are observing through their physical senses. So claims based on their experiences are ultimately grounded in physical observations (leaving aside issues of the theory ladenness of observations).

But when mystics appeal to their ‘experiences’ they are claiming to have a ‘direct experience of reality which transcends not only intellectual thinking but also sensory perception…’ (p29). But in what sense is a non-sensory experience of a mystic really comparable to a sensory experience of a scientist? To press the point, in what sense are they both experiences at all, when they seem to involve opposite (contradictory?) forms of experience, the one being sensory and the other being non-sensory or as it is also sometimes described as ‘intuitive insights’ (p31).

The book seems content to treat both forms of experience as equivalent and comparable, but that is an assumption which is never justified. In fact, we are told on p191 that Eastern mysticism claims that human experiences of reality involve ‘maya’ which is illusion and falsity. Thus, people are wrong to think that they have an ego (or mind or soul) because that is an illusory experience. But if human insights are illusory, then doesn’t that raise serious questions about how we can trust the insights of Eastern mysticism which are being quoted and cited in the book?

Another set of issues arise in the book’s interpretation of science. It tells us how quantum physics overturned the ‘classical physics’ based on absolute space and time in chapter 12. Yes, it is true that Isaac Newton viewed space and time that way. But his contemporary Leibniz did not do so. The whole point at issue in the famous Clarke Leibniz correspondence is the fact that Newton’s position is assuming a substantival view of space and time, whereas there is no evidence that rules out space and time existing as relations. So once again a selectivity of a particular view of science drives the book’s comparisons, whereas the reality is far more nuanced and complex.

Overall, I think the book is fundamentally misconceived. Comparing and equating Eastern mysticism with Quantum Physics because you can find sets of words that seem to be similar, is like comparing and equating two modern foreign languages on the basis that you can find occasional examples of where they have a word that is spelled the same. Both Eastern mysticism and quantum physics are far more complicated and nuanced than the book explains, and without an exposition of that level of complexity, claims of similarity can all too easily tend to represent over-simplifications. ...more

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Freedom, Truth, and Human Dignity by David L. Schindler

Freedom, Truth, and Human Dignity: The Second Vatican Council's Declaration on Religious Freedom (Humanum)
by David L. Schindler

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An indispensable resource for English speaking students of Vatican II, engaging with the issue of Religious Freedom.

What makes the book so important and useful is that it provides for the first time in English, a translation (as well as the original An indispensable resource for English speaking students of Vatican II, engaging with the issue of Religious Freedom.

What makes the book so important and useful is that it provides for the first time in English, a translation (as well as the original Latin text) of each of the 5 drafts of the document which eventually became Dignitatis Humanae. So students can see the evolution of the text and the way that key ideas were expressed in slightly different ways across and between the drafts.

A particularly interesting example is the way that the council struggled to find a way to explain the limiting factor that govern governments use of compulsion when dealing with religious freedom. They tried talking of ‘the common good’ and of ‘public order’ before eventually settling of an appeal to ‘just’ public order or a public order that is defined in terms of objective factors. The transition in terminology has less to do with theology than with a fear that communist governments could misuse the document unless the limiting factor on government action went beyond what a government could define as ‘public order.’

Accompanying the translations are some essays which seek to explain the text and the history of its development. The essays give detailed introductions to the role of key figures like John Courtney Murray and pope John Paul II. The quantity of information is so informative that it risks being a little too informative in places. A shorter sharper presentation of key points would have been less at risk of loosing the thread of exposition amidst the detail.

While the book did acknowledge the disagreement in the church with traditionalists and their interpretation of the text diverging from the view of the mainstream church, the exposition of the text was a little less clear on some of the detail of the disagreements, especially the extent to which the final text seems to be in conflict with words of previous popes such as Pius IX and Pius X. Its difficult, if not impossible, to do full justice to all the different issues, but I think a little less detail about figures like Murray, and a little more detail about the serious ongoing disagreements about the text might have been useful to readers.

Overall, this is a book which will be enjoyed most by students who are already familiar with the issues of Vatican II and Religious Freedom, and who now want to delve into the history and analysis of how the text that finally emerged, did so. ...more

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A Survey of Metaphysics by Lowe, E. J. [17 January 2002]
by E.J. Lowe

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Published in 2002, by an eminent professor of philosophy (who died in 2014), this is a professional work of analytic philosophy written for readers with prior experience in the subject.

Although the book may seem somewhat dated, it is always worth be Published in 2002, by an eminent professor of philosophy (who died in 2014), this is a professional work of analytic philosophy written for readers with prior experience in the subject.

Although the book may seem somewhat dated, it is always worth bearing in mind that the foundational texts of Metaphysics were written more than 2000 years ago by Plato and Aristotle, and they still have relevance. So this is not an area of philosophy which is subject to the vicissitudes of new discoveries.

One of the interesting features of this book is that the author lived through the tail end of the logical positivists and the Quinean focus on concrete existents, yet his own methodology reflects a retrieval from Aristotle with a focus upon the essential features of objects. He starts with what what is possible, rather than what is concretely actual, as starting with what is allegedly actual risks prejudicing the entire enterprise in terms of what is presumptively defined as existing. As this is a book written at the end of an academic career, the author refers to his many other publications for details of specific arguments, and so this book reads at times as more of an magisterial pronouncing of his view on topics, rather than closely arguing to conclusions.

However, one of the problems with the kinds of approaches which start with what is possible is that they can get bogged down in extremely fine grained discussions of what may seem to be pseudo problems. For example, Peter Geach’s problem of Tibbles the cat comes to the fore. The paradox of Tibbles is that he is moulting and has a 1000 hairs that are in a state of ‘loosening’ so that they will fall away in the near future. Tibbles cannot be identified with all those hairs, as he continues to exist as each one falls away. So are we to say that there are 1000 different Tibbles co-present with Tibbles, with each of the Tibbles identified with a specific number of hairs?

The logical issues in the background make problems like this into a genuine paradox which has attracted varying different solutions from philosophers. However, the issue may also lead readers to scratch their head in wonder that philosophers can really be reduced to discussing these kinds of problems. Medieval philosophers were lampooned for arguing about how many angels could sit on a pinhead, is modern philosophy degenerating in a similar direction when the heights of philosophical sophistication is to argue about how many cats can share Tibble’s spatial coordinates?

Across the book the author discusses most of the central questions of metaphysics, bringing in a wide range of additional considerations from logic and other aspects of philosophy. So this is a useful text for getting a holistic impression of the subject of metaphysics as a whole. However it is not an introduction to the subject area. It uses less logical notation that some other similar texts, but readers without a background in the subject of metaphysics are likely to find it a demanding read. ...more

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The Deformation: Examining Reformation Theology Through The Lens of the Early Church
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This is an interesting premise for a book, as it asks the question of whether the Reformers (mainly Luther and Calvin) were truly reforming Christianity by returning it to the ancient original form, or where they deforming it by converting it away fr This is an interesting premise for a book, as it asks the question of whether the Reformers (mainly Luther and Calvin) were truly reforming Christianity by returning it to the ancient original form, or where they deforming it by converting it away from its original form.

The book gets off to a good start, comparing written texts of the reformers with written texts from the Early Church era. We very quickly see that the idea of determinism (ie the absence of free will) was a pagan and heretical idea which early church theologians such as Origen rejected. (That, of course, is not a new insight as Erasmus quoted from Origen in his dispute with Luther).

A significant amount of the book is spent denouncing Augustine as someone who corrupted Christianity, and who the reformers essentially doubled down on by emphasising the worst aspects of Augustine. The point is well made that Luther (an ex-Augustinian friar) and Calvin both explicitly claimed to be following Augustine, but the point is not really explored of the extent to which Augustine himself was actually a Calvinist. Yes there are elements in his writings that can (and were) interpreted that way. But there are also alternative stresses. To establish the doctrinal status of Augustine would take considerably more work than the book gives to it, so the book is somewhat jumping to conclusions on those issues.

In the latter sections the author focuses on an exegesis of Romans as both Luther and Calvin depend upon it heavily for their own doctrines. The style of the book turns from quoting Early Church fathers into an analysis of Scripture, where the author draws upon a better understanding of the Old Testament to query the adequacy of Luther and Calvin’s reading of the texts. That raises some good questions, but it departs from what the author set out to show. If he is trying to show that the Reformers departed from the early Church, then what he needs to show is how the Early Church interpreted the key sections of Romans, ie not what the real meaning of those sections is, as interpreted by biblical scholars today.

The jump in methodologies from Early Church authorities to contemporary biblical exegesis makes the book feel a little uneven in its argument. It also ends in a rather odd place. If the author has shown that the Reformers really ‘deformed’ Christianity, then what is the implication of that? Is he saying that Catholicism or Orthodoxy is better (or less worse) than Protestantism? Or is he saying that none of the existing Christian churches are correct? The book just stops at this point and fails to draw a conclusion.

Overall, there are some interesting comparisons and biblical exegesis which will appeal to readers interested in Reformation theology or Protestantist apologetics. But the incomplete nature of the argumentation means that it may prove somewhat disappointing. ...more

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The Correspondence Between Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia & René Descartes
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The correspondence between Descartes and Princess Elizabeth is a fascinating snapshot into seventeenth century life, and into the kinds of communication networks which existed between the European intelligentsia of the era.

Topics crop up, somewhat r The correspondence between Descartes and Princess Elizabeth is a fascinating snapshot into seventeenth century life, and into the kinds of communication networks which existed between the European intelligentsia of the era.

Topics crop up, somewhat randomly, according to the events of the day, or depending on what books they happen to be reading. This means that Elizabeth asks about some aspects of Descartes own books, but she also raises questions about the writings of Seneca. The issues of God and Free Will appear in various forms, partly because they are interesting, but also because they were a much contested contemporary issue in philosophy and theology.

Some of the most interesting philosophical issues arise when Elizabeth queries Descartes own claims. For example she says in her letter of 10 June 1643 that ‘I have to say that I would find it easier to concede matter and extension to the soul than to concede that an immaterial thing could move and be moved by a body.’ That is a penetrating insight and critique of Descartes’ thinking which still has relevance now. What she is pressing is the issue of how an immaterial soul can move a material soul. Descartes replies with paragraphs of words, but there is no actual answer in what he says.

Elizabeth delicately makes precisely that point, when a month later in the correspondence she says: ‘I find from your letter that the senses show me that the soul moves the body, but as for how it does so, the senses tell me nothing about that, any more than the intellect and the imagination do.’ (1st July 1643). The point she is making is that neither empiricist appeals to senses, nor rationalist appeals to intellect can explain this problem of how a soul can move a body. Once again Descartes provides words, but there is no actual answer.

What emerges from the correspondence is an impression of Elizabeth as a very intelligent and thoughtful person, reading widely and fully conversant with contemporary philosophical ideas. This reveals something important about her as an individual, but also about other women of the era who may have been similarly interested in contemporary ideas, but simply didn’t have the opportunity to write about it. ...more

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Receiving the Council: Theological and Canonical Insights and Debates
by Ladislas Orsy

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A set of ideas which loosely picks up, or reacts to ideas within the documents of Vatican II.

The essays are quite disparate in their interest, and also quite narrowly focused on specific issues. Thus chapter 2 on Episcopal conferences explores how w A set of ideas which loosely picks up, or reacts to ideas within the documents of Vatican II.

The essays are quite disparate in their interest, and also quite narrowly focused on specific issues. Thus chapter 2 on Episcopal conferences explores how well pope John Paul II’s document Apostolos Suos enacts some key ideas of Vatican II about bishops conferences, and how well it also reflects the broad Catholic (and Orthodox) tradition.

That essay concludes that there are problems in what pope John Paul II proposes as it effectively views episcopal conferences as simply a collection of bishops that gains its authority from the Vatican’s insitution. That is a problem because the Eastern Church synods have a very different rationale, and they can make binding pastoral and doctrinal decisions. However John Paul II’s view of episcopal conferences insists that they need unanimity to speak in the name of the bishops, as they do not have a status other than being a collection of bishops.

The author provides a thought provoking analysis and the point is well made that the church has lost an opportunity to recapture elements of the older tradition of synods which still exists in orthodoxy. If East and West are supposed to be working towards an eventual unity, wouldn’t it make sense to bring alignment on issues such as this? Indeed.

Chapter 3 was an equally specific analysis of a very particular code in the code of Canon law: number 129. That code replaced an old rule that said that laity could play a role in the church if they had a clerical status in minor orders. The new code turns clerical status into ordination as a deacon. The author suggests that that is unfortunate and is in fact a regressive step backtowards clericalism. Under the old law any baptised (male) could count as a cleric in the relevant sense, and that is why in past history laity can be seen playing significant roles in Church councils. Women abbesses also had a recognised role. But that has all been ruled out by the new code of canon law.

Overall, the essays raise interesting topics and they are clearly argued and well presented. The subject matter is somewhat specific so readers are more likely to want to dip into an essay on a topic of interest, rather than read the whole book. ...more

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New Inquisition?: Schillebeeckx and Kung
by Peter Hebblethwaite

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Written 46 years ago, the book has largely been superseded by later more detailed biographies of both Schillebeeckx and Kung, but part of what makes the book interesting is that it is a snapshot which reveals thoughts and thinking patterns (as well a Written 46 years ago, the book has largely been superseded by later more detailed biographies of both Schillebeeckx and Kung, but part of what makes the book interesting is that it is a snapshot which reveals thoughts and thinking patterns (as well as original documents) as they were in 1980, at the beginning of pope John Paul II’s pontificate.

What the book does well is to make a clear case that there were serious problems in the way that the Vatican was investigating and dealing with Schillebeeckx and Kung. The details do make it clear that there was too much secrecy in processes with secretative denunciations, unclear and unspecific allegations, and even secrets about who was supposed to be speaking on their behalf and defending them. The Vatican processes were clearly inadequate and the book shows it.

However, what is not explained is that there were actually two very different sets of issues, which are all confused in the investigation, and they remain confused in the book.

On the one hand the CDF at the Vatican were investigating a book, not a person. They were dealing with the issue of whether a book is presenting church teaching inadequately. Traditionally, the Vatican ignored the author, at the stage of investigating the book, because authorial intent and authorial explanations were irrelevant, when the impact of the book was better understood in terms of what a reasonable third party would understand the book to be saying.

The other aspect of the issues is the investigation of the individuals. Clearly those individuals need to investigated in a fair and reasonable way, especially if there are to be consequences which affect them. But the investigation of what the authors meant to say was a logically distinct set of issues to what the book could be interpreted to actually say by any reasonable reader.

In the case of Schillebeeckx, he seems to have been ‘charged’ (if that is the right word) with being insufficient in what he said. His defence was that he can’t say everything that’s relevant about Jesus, as his book was already 700 pages long, and his methodology was trying to pursue a Christology which was embedded in Scripture. That’s a fair point about his methodology.

But what the Vatican were querying by raising that point, is whether the methodology is therefore inadequate itself, precisely because it has prevented the author from presenting a full picture of the topic, and thus it allows readers to be misled (if that is so) by drawing conclusions based on incomplete information. In a law court, for example, witnesses are required to tell the truth and the whole truth. Incomplete information is inadequate information. That was the point that the Vatican was making, and which the author doesn't seem to have really grasped.

This does not mean that the Vatican was entirely right in its approach, and that Schillebeeckx and Kung were entirely in the wrong, but nor does it mean (as the book implies) that they were entirely right and it was the Vatican that was the one in the wrong. The issues are more complicated than the simplistic journalistic portrayal of the good davidic heroes confronting the bad Goliath Vatican. That’s a shame, as there are interesting issues at play in this confrontation and it would have been helpful to present those issues in a more subtle and nuanced way which would enable readers to understand and appreciate both perspectives. ...more

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