Tag: Christopher Howell
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Hope and the Ultimate Synthesis
by Christopher Howell | български | ქართული | ελληνικά | Română | Русский | Српски In two previous posts, I covered the scientist Theodosius Dobzhansky’s scientific and political views. The third area I would like to focus on is religion, where we are on less stable ground. Dobzhansky’s views on religion were idiosyncratic and highly […]
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The Camel and Needle
by Christopher Howell | български | ქართული | ελληνικά Read Part 1: Between Darwin and Dostoevsky Freedom mattered to Theodosius Dobzhansky. He was concerned to articulate a scientific worldview in which Darwin buttressed free will, and he felt it helped answer the problem of evil (offering an early version of the “free process defense” to […]
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Between Darwin and Dostoevsky
by Christopher Howell | български | ქართული | ελληνικά | Română | Русский | Српски When he was young and Russia was in the throes of revolution, Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900-1975) felt the “urgency of finding a meaning of life…in the bloody tumult.” But he was stuck between two poles that drew him equally: religion and […]
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George Seferis and the Freedom of Tradition
by Christopher Howell | ελληνικά “I belong to a small country,” said the great Greek poet George Seferis in his Nobel Prize winning speech in 1963. “It is small, but its tradition is immense.” As wrangling over the word “tradition” has become an idle pastime, particularly on that domain of debauchery known as social media, […]
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Ο ΓΙΩΡΓΟΣ ΣΕΦΕΡΗΣ ΚΑΙ Η ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΠΑΡΑΔΟΣΗΣ
του Christopher Howell «Ανήκω σε μια χώρα μικρή», είπε ο μεγάλος Έλληνας ποιητής, Γιώργος Σεφέρης, στην ομιλία του, κατά την τελετή απονομής του βραβείου Νόμπελ, το 1963. «Είναι μικρός ο τόπος μας, αλλά η παράδοσή του είναι τεράστια». Κι ενώ η διαμάχη γύρω από τον όρο «παράδοση» έφτασε να γίνεται «για να περνά η ώρα» […]
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Seraphim Rose and David Bentley Hart
by Christopher Howell One might not expect Seraphim Rose and David Bentley Hart to agree on much, but they do share one crucial perspective: that modernity is essentially nihilistic. However, while their diagnoses of modernity may be similar, their prescriptions are diametrically opposed. To stem the tide of modernity’s nihilistic encroachments, Rose rejected ecumenism as […]