Daniel Strand
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Daniel Strand
@DDFStrand
ethics prof, writing book on Augustine's City of God, EIC @AmReformer
Katılım Aralık 2018
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Sir John Mason (1503-1566), diplomat and spy for Henry VIII, knighted by Edward VI, and, as Blackstone notes, the first Protestant chancellor of Oxford
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Frazier is one of the great conservative sitcom figures.
🏛 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 🏛@nonregemesse
There’s an episode from Cheers where Frasier and another guy are quoting from Richard II and Cyrano de Bergerac. 34 million Americans watched this episode.
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@AndrewTWalker @FeserEdward Sad what has happened to Jamie. He seems lost.
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Oh my. @FeserEdward reviews James K.A. Smith's latest book. A review for the ages. firstthings.com/breaking-the-m…
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@NachoCat16 @michaeljknowles He was a convert to Rome before EO. The nominalism stuff is late medieval Catholicism in origin. Not patristic.
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I’m no expert or philosopher, but it seems that the dominant (or at least influential) mode of thinking would have influenced many more than just Luther.
Either way, this criticism seems to come from both patristic traditions and isn’t just Catholic.
My only point was really that Dyer (who is EO and argues regularly against Catholicism) is an unlikely person to be blindly parroting Catholic narratives.
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Of all the things conservatives like to point to as the moment everything went to pot (e.g., the ’60s, WWI, French Revolution, Westphalia, Act of Supremacy, 95 Theses, Great Schism, Fall of Rome, Eve’s eating the apple, etc.), nominalism is among the strongest contenders.
Defiant Ghost@TheDefiantGhost
Jay Dyer on Tucker Carlson: How Medieval Philosophy Nominalism created modern transgender ideology: “Nominalism is the idea that there are only names to things, not essences. So there’s no human nature. No dog nature. The ancient world believed things have real essences. Words described metaphysical reality. Occam started denying that. It influenced Luther. Then Hume, Kant, the Enlightenment… If things don’t have essences, then they don’t have genders objectively — everything is just a name. So I can just name myself he, him, Zer, Z. That’s the logical train from medieval philosophy to postmodern gender ideology. It flies in the face of lived experience. You basically have to be indoctrinated to believe it.”
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@NachoCat16 @michaeljknowles Luther adopted nominalism, and Luther is made the stand in for all Protestantism
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@DDFStrand @michaeljknowles I think you’re strawmanning what he says in the clip. He doesn’t say that nominalism created Protestantism.
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@NachoCat16 @michaeljknowles Nominalism created Protestantism created modernity is a Catholic narrative. Created and repeated by many Catholic intellectuals and apologists. Dyer didn’t create this.
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@DDFStrand @michaeljknowles There may be many things one could accuse Jay Dyer of, but parroting Catholic narratives ain’t one of ‘em.
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@johnehrett Anybody who has worked for the federal bureaucracy knows this truth.
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This is unironically one of the most important things to be learned about politics
nxthompson@nxthompson
This is an amazing quote from Lindsey Graham about when he realized how politics works. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/…
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I don't want to spark any mimesis whatsoever here, but the remote parts of the upper peninsula in Michigan are the last great American frontier—literally the only one left.
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@NachoCat16 @michaeljknowles He’s trading on a Catholic narrative.
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I used to find this sort of metaphysical reading of history compelling. The problem, among many, is that it completely ignores history, as though ideas float above us shaping our beliefs. Philosophers in particular fall into this trap because they see ideas at work in everything. While ideas have a role, they are often not the ultimate cause.
Defiant Ghost@TheDefiantGhost
Jay Dyer on Tucker Carlson: How Medieval Philosophy Nominalism created modern transgender ideology: “Nominalism is the idea that there are only names to things, not essences. So there’s no human nature. No dog nature. The ancient world believed things have real essences. Words described metaphysical reality. Occam started denying that. It influenced Luther. Then Hume, Kant, the Enlightenment… If things don’t have essences, then they don’t have genders objectively — everything is just a name. So I can just name myself he, him, Zer, Z. That’s the logical train from medieval philosophy to postmodern gender ideology. It flies in the face of lived experience. You basically have to be indoctrinated to believe it.”
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The distinctive culture that is America - high energy, pious, practical, innovative, civic, and forward looking - draws from the taproot of Protestantism. We can exist as an incoherent country with warring tribes and divisive public culture, but we will not thrive unless we return to the religious ethos that has been the engine for American life from its inception. As much as many Catholics would like to replace Protestantism, cultures don’t work that way. The best they can hope for is a revived Protestantism that is more traditionalist in orientation.
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In despising and turning away from Protestantism, many converts to Rome and EO are in fact turning away and despising America, which is a Protestant nation at its core. They claim to be conservative - in fact, radically conservative - but it is a rejection of America for a European version of society and politics that is alien to American soil.
Defiant Ghost@TheDefiantGhost
Jay Dyer on Tucker Carlson: How Medieval Philosophy Nominalism created modern transgender ideology: “Nominalism is the idea that there are only names to things, not essences. So there’s no human nature. No dog nature. The ancient world believed things have real essences. Words described metaphysical reality. Occam started denying that. It influenced Luther. Then Hume, Kant, the Enlightenment… If things don’t have essences, then they don’t have genders objectively — everything is just a name. So I can just name myself he, him, Zer, Z. That’s the logical train from medieval philosophy to postmodern gender ideology. It flies in the face of lived experience. You basically have to be indoctrinated to believe it.”
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@Kin_Loch Indeed, but one does not do discourse analysis and diagramming of German sentences.
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Best way to learn English grammar is to learn how to read a foreign language, preferably Latin or Greek. When you are forced to translate one language into another you learn the mechanics of English more effectively than studying an English grammar book.
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Could have lowered penalties for marijuana possession without granting it legal and social sanction.
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Two vices that have let out of the bottle that will be hard to put back in: recreational marijuana legalization and sports betting. They provide no social benefit. There is only downside. Libertarian impulses in both parties allowed this to happen.
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We had our last child when my wife was 35 and it was classified as a geriatric pregnancy
Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸@aaron_renn
"Even after nine failed rounds, Kelly, who is 46, gets frustrated every time she talks to a doctor who says her eggs are just too old. 'I just don’t know that I believe that,' she says.:
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Public trust in higher education continues to fall.
This year's Gallup survey of higher ed shows that the decline in trust is also bipartisan.
Distrust is now almost as high among people who went to college as among those who did not.
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You spent four years in college, graduated, and ONLY 36% have confidence in higher ed afterwards. That is damning. If 64% have no confidence after prolonged exposure to your institution, you should be asking serious questions.
Jen Brick Murtazashvili@jmurtazashvili
Only 36% of Americans whose highest degree is a bachelor’s have confidence in higher education, compared with 35% of those without a four-year degree. Even among Democrats, confidence fell from 61% last year to 50%. This is a new low.
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@lukemoon1 Same. Sucked at grammar till I learned Greek and Latin.
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@DDFStrand I almost didn't graduate from high school because I struggled in English classes. I learned New Testament Greek for my BA and understood English grammar for the first time.
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