Aish, 23 February, 2025. In Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat makes a powerful case for religious practice and belief — a case which, despite (or perhaps because of) its correctness, contains an internal tension rising almost to the level of self-contradiction[…] Douthat’s first two chapters masterfully show that…
Tag: philosophy
Hamlet’s Chimera
My Substack, Hamlet’s Chimera, explores paradoxes around religion, philosophy, and culture. Some favorite posts: Theistic-Idealist Monism Evil is Meta-Good How I Became Pro-Life Extremists Lack Passion There is No Prize for Misery Do You Believe in Cod? Numbers are Fake Logic is a Faith Which God(s) Exist(s)? Letter from a Man at the Other Table…
Ma’alot Tsedaqah and Ordine Caritatis: Orders of Charitable Priority in Maimonides and Aquinas
Journal of Ecumenical Studies. (Spring 2012.) In the context of works that would become profoundly influential to each scholar’s respective religious tradition, both Moses Maimonides (in his Mishneh Torah) and Thomas Aquinas (in his Summa Theologiae) formulated orders of priority for charitable giving. Similarities and differences between these formulations illuminate broader similarities and differences between Jewish…
