Ryan Haecker

I spoke today about my new essay 'Jesuit Cybernetics', Bios, & Techne in Krakow Ploand with @jeffreypbishop and the International Academy for Bioethical Inquiry.

Magnificent Art Nouveau interior of the Societe Generale Bank by Jacques Hermant. This dome is an architectural masterpiece

Hello Friends: Your daily reminder to Read: Hegel's "The Difference Between Fichte's and Schelling's System of Philosophy;" Schelling's "System of Transcendental Idealism (1800)," Kant's "Critique of the Power of Judgment," and Leibniz's "New Essays on Human Understanding."

I think we know how Hegel would respond to Damascius, the more interesting question might be how Damascius might respond in the face of Hegel’s critiques.

Five-time Nobel prize-nominated author, playwright, poet, film director, bodybuilder, Shintoist, ultranationalist and the leader of an attempted coup d’etat that culminated with a gruesome public act of seppuku – the great post-war-era Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima was a deeply…

"The reverse face of humanism itself has usually been an impersonal immanentism and a gospel of cosmic futility." - John Milbank @johnmilbank3 , The Programme of Radical Orthodoxy, in Radical Orthodoxy? A Catholic Enquiry, p.43

"[Proclus] went much further than did Plotinus; it may indeed be said that in this respect we find in him the most excellent and best that was formulated by any of the Neo-Platonists." - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures on the History of Philosophy

Same energy

Before Sunrise (1995), Dir. Richard Linklater

I'll see everyone on the other side

Wandering in the Alps

We need Catholic video games.

When Themistocles was asked whether he would prefer to be Achilles or Homer, he replied: "And you, what would you prefer? To be the victor at the Olympic Games, or the one who announces the victors?" —Plutarch, Sayings of Kings and Commanders, 185.A.4

Mary, Star of the Sea

Domenico Tintoretto, The Penitent Magdalene (c. 1598-1602)

"I give the devil benefit of law for my own safety's sake." youtu.be/PDBiLT3LASk?si…

Friends, what a special delight it is to behold two magnificent rose windows on the western facade here in Reims Cathedral—resplendent reminders that everything in us should point to Christ.  Keep following us as we continue filming our cathedral series. God bless you!

“The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; Another race hath been, and other palms are won.” —William Wordsworth, “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood”