Comments on: Which discipline? http://www.bdhamilton.com/articles/which-discipline Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:34:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Brian Hamilton http://www.bdhamilton.com/articles/which-discipline/comment-page-1#comment-8448 Brian Hamilton Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:13:50 +0000 http://www.bdhamilton.com/?p=644#comment-8448 Cass, thanks for dropping by. I sometimes envy the "freedom of not being an academic," but you're right to say that this life is an incredible privilege. I've seen Budziszewski's work around, but I've never gotten the chance to read any of it. I'll have to check it out! Thanks for the suggestion. Cass, thanks for dropping by. I sometimes envy the “freedom of not being an academic,” but you’re right to say that this life is an incredible privilege.

I’ve seen Budziszewski’s work around, but I’ve never gotten the chance to read any of it. I’ll have to check it out! Thanks for the suggestion.

]]> By: Cass http://www.bdhamilton.com/articles/which-discipline/comment-page-1#comment-8307 Cass Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:31:05 +0000 http://www.bdhamilton.com/?p=644#comment-8307 Hello, Brian. I found yr blog in a search on "analogical interval" and hit a post with notes after a joint lecture including D.B. Hart, whom I also admire and enjoy reading. I am a middle-aged homeschooling housewife, so a bit distant from your world in terms of quotidian particulars, but have also an awakening interest in orthodox (RC) theology, metaphysics and ethics. Plus, am plugged in vicariously, through friends, to a little of the ND grad school world...philosophy department of recent years. So, I find yr blog interesting. Anyway, what I wanted to ask is, do you know the work of philosopher J. Budziszewski? I don't see him mentioned on yr blog. He is a natural law guy, but really coherent and readable, after the style (some say) of a Chesterton or Lewis -ish sort. His latest, The Line Through the Heart, is really lovely, and has more than a little bearing on ethics and theology. If you don't know him, you should. He is bold as bold about not merely allowing but requiring the logic of solid theological and revelational principles to inform philosophical discourse. A refreshing outlook in these austerely secularist times. The freedom of not being an academic myself I consider a great blessing, as the marketability and fashionability aspects of the world you walk in are real hindrances to the development of the honest mind. But, too, of course, it is a world of comparative privilege and freedom, as no doubt you already appreciate. Good luck to you. I have no blog as yet, just a blog idea. Visit if ever you're curious about how all this might mesh with the world of dirty diapers and reconstructing the roots of do-it-yourself classical education for the very young. Hello, Brian.
I found yr blog in a search on “analogical interval” and hit a post with notes after a joint lecture including D.B. Hart, whom I also admire and enjoy reading.
I am a middle-aged homeschooling housewife, so a bit distant from your world in terms of quotidian particulars, but have also an awakening interest in orthodox (RC) theology, metaphysics and ethics. Plus, am plugged in vicariously, through friends, to a little of the ND grad school world…philosophy department of recent years. So, I find yr blog interesting.
Anyway, what I wanted to ask is, do you know the work of philosopher J. Budziszewski? I don’t see him mentioned on yr blog. He is a natural law guy, but really coherent and readable, after the style (some say) of a Chesterton or Lewis -ish sort. His latest, The Line Through the Heart, is really lovely, and has more than a little bearing on ethics and theology. If you don’t know him, you should. He is bold as bold about not merely allowing but requiring the logic of solid theological and revelational principles to inform philosophical discourse. A refreshing outlook in these austerely secularist times.
The freedom of not being an academic myself I consider a great blessing, as the marketability and fashionability aspects of the world you walk in are real hindrances to the development of the honest mind. But, too, of course, it is a world of comparative privilege and freedom, as no doubt you already appreciate.
Good luck to you. I have no blog as yet, just a blog idea. Visit if ever you’re curious about how all this might mesh with the world of dirty diapers and reconstructing the roots of do-it-yourself classical education for the very young.

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