Tag: Reason

The Stories We Live By: Myth, Reason, and the Search for the Good Life

Human beings live by stories. This is the oldest human truth, yet the one modern culture most quickly forgets. This is not poetic metaphor but anthropological fact. Long before the rise of modern philosophy or scientific rationalism, cultures understood that narrative is the architecture of consciousness—that stories give form to desire,
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Rediscovering Ollé-Laprune’s Catholic Vision: Faith and Reason Within Modernity

While studying the Catholic intellectual tradition and its encounter with modernity, I kept noticing the same name in the margins: Léon Ollé-Laprune. Usually mentioned in passing as “the teacher of Maurice Blondel,” he seemed more like a footnote than a figure in his own right. But his recurring presence became
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