Father James V. Schall, S.J.

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In Memory of the Beloved Priest, Philosopher, Teacher, and Friend (1928 - 2019). Fulfilling his assignment to a former student to share his works online.

Vrijeme pridruživanja: rujan 2019.

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  1. 2. velj

    To live in a world in which we owe nothing to anyone or no one owes anything to us can be a kind of isolated hell.

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  2. 1. velj

    When politics neglects its philosophical origins, it makes itself its own philosophy immune from any judgment but its own about what is good and what is evil.

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  3. 31. sij

    On a fall Friday evening, when I was in high school (Knoxville, Iowa), the biggest town event was the football game. (Photo: Schall playing football)

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  4. 30. sij

    The human being can choose not to be what it is designed, purposed to be. The risk of human existence is its capacity to reject human existence.

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  5. 29. sij

    Ironically, all the scientific and moral aberrations that seek to change human life have motivations that are better solved by the revelational answers.

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  6. 28. sij

    Morality is a whole, or it is not morality at all.

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  7. 27. sij

    “Sport perhaps lacks the seriousness of contemplating the highest things, yet it contains a liberty and a joy of its own that can only be had if we seriously engage in the play before us.” (Photo: Schall pole-vaulting)

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  8. 27. sij

    We will always be bothered to some degree by temptations and meandering thoughts. Work on improving memory can be helpful.

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  9. 25. sij

    Most people understand that if people really saw what happens in an abortion, they would realize that something much more heinous than “legality” is going on.

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  10. 24. sij

    If such a “right” exists for a state or person to kill anyone who has incurred no personal guilt of his own, the same principle can be used to kill anyone, if the need arises.

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  11. 24. sij

    This effort is presented as a way to improve the human race by allowing man full control over the begetting process. This approach ultimately removes the begetting process from the loving family and hands it to the state

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  12. 22. sij

    The fact that a significant percentage of the actual human race, though conceived, are not born, does not mean those unborn do not have the same destiny and purpose of those born

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  13. 21. sij

    Drawing on St. Augustine, Leon Kass, Charlie Brown and former NFL linebacker Bill Romanowski, Schall argues that “unserious activities” help make human life worth living. - Marc Guerra

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  14. 20. sij

    There is nothing is wrong with wanting to live a long life. But we do not want to live to be one fifty or two hundred. The normal human span has its own purpose. Death is given as a punishment, but also as a blessing.

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  15. 13. sij

    It is not always wise to change things because some different law or custom might be a bit better. Every time we change a word, memories cease.

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  16. 11. sij

    The proposition that the world is created or exists in injustice was a maddening one for Plato, as it must be for anyone who considers its implications.

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  17. 10. sij

    Revelation was not designed to tell us what we could know or figure out by our reason. We did not need the Bible to invent the wheel or to know how to build a house.

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  18. 9. sij

    The Fr. James V. Schall Lecture Series continues in DC featuring David M Whalen of discussing Chesterton

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  19. 7. sij

    Philosophy — and yes, college — exists to make us aware of impractical things, things that have no “use,” the things that are well worth falling into a hole about even if we be laughed at.

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  20. 6. sij

    Religious faith understands that something else that we do not see is true, because we accept the testimony of someone who saw.

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