Monthly Archives: July 2008

On the Unknown Limits

Posted on 2008/07/08 by ngilmour

I’ve been reading Thomas Aquinas for the last few days, and I continue to be impressed.? I read his Compendium for comps, and now, the first leg of the Summa completed, I still think that his philosophy is without match … Continue reading →

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The Post Where I Say Nice Things about Attack of the Clones

Posted on 2008/07/06 by ngilmour

Earlier this summer, mere days after comps ended, I found a VHS set of Star Wars episodes four through six (the ones from the seventies and eighties), and he’s hooked on Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. (We … Continue reading →

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Fall calendar and paper assignments done

Posted on 2008/07/05 by ngilmour

When August rolls around, all I’m going to have to do is to get photocopies run and add students to my database. I’ve already got the class calendar done, and I’m going to update paper assignments and plan the first … Continue reading →

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The Summa

Posted on 2008/07/05 by ngilmour

I located and downloaded all four parts of an English translation of the Summa Theologica today.? From the looks of it, it’s going to be about 10,000 Sony reader screens of theological goodness. Nerd alert.

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Book Review: The Closing of the American Mind

Posted on 2008/07/02 by ngilmour

I finally finished this book this morning, having started mere days after I finished my comprehensive exams. For about three hundred sixty of its three hundred eighty pages, I wasn’t sure what its thesis was going to be, and frankly, … Continue reading →

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