As its title reveals, Joe’s early book, The Authoritative and the Authoritarian,1 drew an original distinction that is important to all thought about law, and about more than law: to all thought about any form of social organization, from the family to the church—for all human organization requires authority. As for the meaning of the word “authoritative”: in this book, and in his later thinkin...

Galileo was very much a man of the Renaissance. He was, like that portentous era, a watershed in which the streams of past and present, coming from heterogeneous sources, mixed and mingled. The current that emerged had certain clearly discernible characteristics that made of Galileo a man much more of the future than of the medieval past. Because of this, he is a symbol of the new age of modern...

Since the end of twentieth Century traditional interpretation Catharism, assuming it’s Eastern roots and dualist character is object a harsh criticism, formulated by deconstructionist scholars. The moderated version their new assumes that dualism didn’t play an important role in Cathar “dissidence” was not influenced heresies (especially Bogomilism), but appeared independently West. According t...

In his 1615 letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Lorraine, Galileo argues for a “principle of limitation”: the authority of Scripture should not be invoked in scientific matters. In doing so, he claims to be following the example of St. Augustine. But Augustine’s position would be better described as a “principle of differing purpose”: although the Scriptures were not written in order to re...

In 2003, academic staff members at The University of the West Indies Faculty of Medical Sciences St Augustine Trinidad and Tobago combined their expertise to make strides in Alzheimer’s and Dementia research in Trinidad and Tobago. Dr. Nelleen Baboolal, Dr. Gershwin Davis and Professor Amanda McRae began developing a project that has produced significant results by examining not only the epidem...

The aim of the paper is to develop a thesis about potential phenomenology as method for analyzing classical ancient texts. article outlines key issues doctrine time Augustine and raises question principles phenomenological interpretation. Proceeding from presentism approach, parallels are drawn between philosophy E. Husserl, issue duration structure present especially considered. includes both ...