Tag Archives: Philosophy

The Philosopher King

Posted on Friday, 19 September, 2025 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I am so disenchanted with modern left / right political disputes and even the idea that English and European culture can be saved by reversing the policies of mass immigration, especially of Muslims. I am not going to discuss the … Continue reading →

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The Nietzschean Christian Übermensch

Posted on Friday, 28 February, 2025 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I stumbled across a video and an article about a French diocesan bishop expressing his views of traditionalist Catholics and a need to keep a close watch over those who celebrate and follow the old Latin liturgy. Mgr Jordy: l’ignorance … Continue reading →

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Rabbit Holes

Posted on Sunday, 26 January, 2025 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have been very quiet as of late in the current controversies surrounding the inauguration of Donald Trump, Europe, the UK, Net Zero, electric cars, China and Russia, Islam, terrorists and grooming gangs, the Church and Pope Francis, American “woke” … Continue reading →

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The First Signs of Freedom: William Morris’s Romantic medievalism and the Oxford Movement.

Posted on Saturday, 18 January, 2025 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Dr Timothy Graham is a medical doctor specialising in Gastroenterology at St George’s Hospital in London. He obtained an MPhil in Philosophy in 2011 with a dissertation on the thought of Austin Farrer from Queen’s University Belfast where he had … Continue reading →

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The Art of Selfishness

Posted on Wednesday, 1 January, 2025 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have just finished reading Andrea Wulf’s book on the Jena Idealists and one of the strongest points of origin of the Romantic worldview. As she closed the book after a chapter about the wider influence of the Jena Set … Continue reading →

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Evil and Beauty

Posted on Saturday, 28 December, 2024 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Today is the feast of the Holy Innocents. Following a message from heaven in a dream, Joseph took Mary and the Infant to Egypt to take refuge, in an image of the First Exile of the Israelites to the same … Continue reading →

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Beauty, Truth and Goodness

Posted on Friday, 27 December, 2024 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

A few days ago, I thought it a good idea to create a Substack account Going Substack. I set up the account with the option of not paywalling or using a lot of gimmicks. Last night, this message appeared. We’ve removed … Continue reading →

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La Mer nous apprend la Modestie

Posted on Thursday, 10 October, 2024 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Something I encounter very frequently in my own thinking and in some others is the way we think and process knowledge, and what seems to represent truth. I am highly concerned by the way most people I encounter have a … Continue reading →

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Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive!

Posted on Saturday, 1 June, 2024 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

History does not repeat itself, but it seems to produce analogies of itself in more or less predictable cycles. This is the fourth time on this blog that I have introduced a posting by this famous and poignant quote from … Continue reading →

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Christian Atheism

Posted on Friday, 22 March, 2024 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have a friend who is cultured, courteous and has a good sense of humour. However, he has an almost unique position of upholding Christianity (to some extent) whilst denying God, the Spirit or the supernatural. He seemed sympathetic to … Continue reading →

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