Immelmann: Demons, Truth, and Artistic Temptation in Walker Percy’s Love in the Ruins
In his essay, “Walker Percy’s Devil,” Thomas LeClair contends that Art Immelmann, the devil figure in Love in the Ruins, represents a temptation not only…
Tag: Great Books
The Guilt of Each for Everyone: The Common Sensibility in The Brothers Karamazov, Forgiveness Vespers, and Breaking Bad
“Everyone is guilty for everyone else,” claims Dmitri Karamazov in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. In the same breath, he declares his innocence and need for…
Christian Love in Pagan Britain: Shakespeare’s King Lear
As the characters of the play respond to injustices by inquiring into the “cause” of evil, they not only discover that there is no cause in natu…
Against Method
What pertains to the uses of intellect divides into the particular and the human. Human uses go to the intellectual act proper to human beings, such…
What Does it Matter if Nature Acts for an End?
If it is true that nature indeed acts for an end, then man by nature must have a purpose.
