David Bentley Hart
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Escaping the Mind Machine October 17, 2024
In 1714, the German polymath, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, wrote in The Monadology, “If we imagine a machine whose structure makes it think, sense, and have perceptions, we could conceive it enlarged, keeping the same proportions, so that we could ente...
On David Bentley Hart September 24, 2024
A few years ago during a conversation with my friend, a Roman Catholic priest, our conversation turned to Thomas Aquinas. This priest, of the traditionally inclined sort typically all-too-happy to embrace Thomism against the tides of modernity, offer...
Language and Leonard Michaels September 05, 2024
All that great writing, trapped in mediocre books! —Elif BatumanCatachresis leads to anthropophagy. —David Bentley HartOrdinary people have a right to feel harassed when their language is criticized. We have grammar school for that kind of thing afte...
