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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2025_12_21_archive.html Siris: 12/21/25 siris https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2026/04/habitude-xxxii.html Siris: Habitude XXXII And to the first one proceeds thus. It seems that gifts are not distinguished from virtues. For Gregory, in Moral. I, expositing Job, ther... sirishabitudexxxii https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2009/04/blogroll-revision.html Siris: Blogroll Revision As you can tell if you aren't reading this by feed, I am redoing my sidebar, especially my blogroll. It hadn't been updated (beyond an addit... sirisblogrollrevision https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2012/01/tebowological-argument.html Siris: The Tebowological Argument People play a lot of games, things that are just a bit of horsing around; and one of the games people are playing right now online is the co... sirisargument https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2025/09/evening-note-for-tuesday-september-25.html Siris: Evening Note for Tuesday, September 23 Thought for the Evening: Convertibility of Signs and Principles One of the most important aspects of human life consists of probable reaso... siriseveningnotetuesdayseptember https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2005_03_27_archive.html Siris: 03/27/05 siris https://mliccione.blogspot.com/2007/10/pms-ii-siris-on-carson-and-me-vs-witt.html Sacramentum Vitae: PMS II: Siris on Carson-and-me-vs-Witt Prof. Brandon Watson of Siris has now weighed in on the debate, such as it is, between Prof. Scott Carson and Dr. William Witt on the so-ca... and mesacramentumvitaepmsii https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2004/09/dangers-of-poorly-chosen-metaphor.html Siris: The Dangers of Poorly Chosen Metaphor One of the reasons I worry about the popularity of the Lakoff thing, or, to be more precise, the popularity of Lakoff's framing idea as it h... the dangerssirispoorlychosenmetaphor https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2004_10_17_archive.html Siris: 10/17/04 siris https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2011/12/michael-dummett-1925-2011.html Siris: Michael Dummett (1925-2011) Michael Dummett died recently . I never had much philosophical connection with him, because he was wrong about most things that he spent mos... sirismichael https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2015/04/music-on-my-mind_17.html Siris: Music on My Mind First Aid Kit, "Master Pretender" music onsirismind https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2004/11/marcel-at-sep.html Siris: Marcel at SEP The SEP has a new article up on Gabriel Marcel . I like Marcel a lot, although I don't read as much of him as I would like. For one thing it... sirismarcelsep https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2011/07/kangaroo.html Siris: Kangaroo I really like this story about the origin of the English word 'kangaroo', apparently quoted from Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain... siriskangaroo https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2011_04_24_archive.html Siris: 04/24/11 siris https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2018/09/three-poem-re-drafts.html Siris: Three Poem Re-Drafts The First Way of Saint Thomas Aquinas The changed all around us is easy to see. Unchanged by another no changed thing can be. What is ab... siristhreepoemdrafts https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2008/10/five-dimensions-of-moral-sense.html Siris: Five Dimensions of Moral Sense Will Wilkinson has an interesting post worth reading on Jonathan Haidt's analysis of the difference between liberals and conservatives . I'm... five dimensionssirismoralsense https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2014_12_07_archive.html Siris: 12/07/14 siris https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2022/05/visitation.html Siris: Visitation [Jacques Daret, The Visitation , from the Arras Altarpiece. The man on the left is a portrait of the donor.] In those days Mary set out an... sirisvisitation https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2024/01/music-on-my-mind_31.html Siris: Music on My Mind Running Wild, "Treasure Island" music onsirismind https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2010/09/maris-stella.html Siris: Maris Stella Hail, Queen of Heaven, the Ocean Star by John Lingard Hail, Queen of heaven, the ocean star, Guide of the wanderer here below, Thrown o... sirismarisstella https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-electoral-college-and-national.html Siris: The Electoral College and National Popular Votes, Part I Let us be quite clear from the beginning: The Democratic Party deliberately nominated a candidate who was undergoing federal investigation f... the electoral collegesirisnationalpopularvotes https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2012_04_01_archive.html Siris: 04/01/12 siris https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2019_06_16_archive.html Siris: 06/16/19 siris https://ciso.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/siris-capital-in-talks-to-take-cybersecurity-firm-radware-private-cnbc/86189060 Siris Capital in talks to take cybersecurity firm Radware private - CNBC, ETCISO The deal is not assured and the talks may fall apart, the CNBC report added. in talks https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2019_01_27_archive.html Siris: 01/27/19 siris https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2008_05_25_archive.html Siris: 05/25/08 siris https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2014_06_15_archive.html Siris: 06/15/14 siris https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2005_01_23_archive.html Siris: 01/23/05 siris https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-law-of-nature-and-reason.html Siris: A Law of Nature and Reason ...We must admit the existence of a law of nature and reason that precedes civil coexistence, and that must be respected by all civil dispo... law of naturesirisreason https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2008_01_13_archive.html Siris: 01/13/08 siris https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2024/02/bonaventure-for-lent-iii.html Siris: Bonaventure for Lent III [T]he intellect can be said truly to comprehend the meaning of propositions when it knows with certainty that they are true; and to know in... sirisbonaventurelentiii https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2016/01/pauls-pagan-quotations-iv.html Siris: Paul's Pagan Quotations IV A possible, but only possible, quoted phrase from a pagan author is found in Acts 26: On one of these journeys I was going to Damascus wit... paul ssirispaganquotationsiv https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2023/05/dashed-off-xv.html Siris: Dashed Off XV Prooftexting at least presents prima facie evidence; it is often replaced with things that do not even do that. A historical period is not ... sirisdashedxv https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siris_(flumen) Siris (flumen) - Vicipaedia sirisflumenvicipaedia https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2017/06/flesh-and-bone.html Siris: Flesh and Bone Philosophy is a product of the humanity of each philosopher, and each philosopher is a man of flesh and bone who addresses himself to other ... sirisfleshbone https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2018_04_01_archive.html Siris: 04/01/18 siris https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2011/07/fraud-part-iii.html Siris: The Fraud, Part III ( Part I ) ( Part II ) ( All-Father ) How subtle are the gods! But cleverness and doom are partners hand in hand. The treachery of gods ... the fraudsirispartiii https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2022/08/links-of-note-noted.html Siris: Links of Note, Noted * Ashley Cullins, That Was My Idea! How Hollywood Is Avoiding Story Theft Claims * E. Sonny Elizondo, Kantian Eudaimonism (PDF) * Ted Gioi... links of notesirisnoted https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2020/02/animal-obligations.html Siris: Animal Obligations Human beings obviously understand a lot of their lives in terms of deontic ideas -- rules, laws, rights, obligations, duties. One way this d... sirisanimalobligations https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2023/10/learning-to-love.html Siris: Learning to Love Nietzsche is very uneven, but one of his very best passages is section 334 of The Gay Science , on learning to love, using music as an exam... sirislearninglove https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2016_12_18_archive.html Siris: 12/18/16 siris https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2022_01_16_archive.html Siris: 01/16/22 siris https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2013/05/aquinas-for-may-xxi.html Siris: Aquinas for May XXI Gratia Dei datur ad duo: scilicet ad bonum operandum, et ad vitandum malum; et quantum ad ista duo perfectissimam gratiam habuit beata virgo... sirisaquinasmayxxi https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2011/01/in-those-twelve-days.html Siris: In Those Twelve Days In Those Twelve Days What is that which is but one? What is that which is but one? We have but one God alone In Heaven above sits on hi... siristwelvedays https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2017/03/lent-xxi.html Siris: Lent XXI And the dragon was angry against the woman: and went to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep the commandments of God, and have the t... sirislentxxi https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2018/07/frederick-douglass-narrative-of-life-of.html Siris: Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; Booker T. Washington, Up... Introduction Opening Passages: From Douglass's Narrative : I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easto... booker t washingtonfrederick douglassof thesirisnarrative https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2004/12/beginning-of-transition.html Siris: Beginning of a Transition For those of you interested in these sorts of things, I have begun to make some of the changes to Houyhnhnm Land . It is nowhere near done (... of asirisbeginningtransition https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2025/09/in-tales-irrevocably-gone.html Siris: In Tales Irrevocably Gone Lost by G. K. Chesterton So you have gained the golden crowns, so you have piled together The laurels and the jewels, the pearls out of th... siristalesgone https://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/srv/api/records/age:D_I757_SIRIS?language=all Cartografia catastale - Comune di SIRIS Cartografia catastale cartografia catastalecomune disiris https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2024_09_01_archive.html Siris: 09/01/24 siris https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2008/03/three-poem-drafts.html Siris: Three Poem Drafts Blush Blushing, confused, I do not know what to say; to be regarded as someone else is awkward in a way, and I wish the earth would swallow ... siristhreepoemdrafts https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2021/10/fortnightly-book-october-3.html Siris: Fortnightly Book, October 3 The next fortnightly book is Their Eyes Were Watching God , by Zora Neale Hurston. In college (first at Howard University then at Barnard C... sirisfortnightlybookoctober https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2026_03_29_archive.html Siris: 03/29/26 siris https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2019_05_26_archive.html Siris: 05/26/19 siris https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2011_10_09_archive.html Siris: 10/09/11 siris https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2022_10_16_archive.html Siris: 10/16/22 siris https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2014/09/they-all-were-moderns-in-their-day.html Siris: They All Were Moderns in Their Day Ballade of Moderns by G. K. Chesterton On deserts red and deserts grey The temples into sand have slid; Go search that splendour of dec... sirismodernsday https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2006_10_29_archive.html Siris: 10/29/06 siris https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2020/12/hunnestad-monument.html Siris: Hunnestad Monument [By Ole Worm (1588-1654) - Worm, Ole, Monumenta Danica (1643)., Public Domain, Link ] This week saw a very interesting historical re-discove... sirismonument https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2004/12/ramblin-man-why-dont-you-settle-down.html Siris: "Ramblin' Man, Why Don't You Settle Down?" I'm off to Boston for the next two days; I'll probably be back Friday morning, and I don't think I'll be doing any blogging before then. ramblin mandon tsirissettle https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2015/02/fortnightly-book-february-15.html Siris: Fortnightly Book, February 15 Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth. Lloyd Cassel Douglas (1877-1951) was born Doya Douglas in Columbia City, Indiana to a... sirisfortnightlybookfebruary https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2019/07/kant-and-generality-of-maxims.html Siris: Kant and Generality of Maxims In introductory discussions of Kant, and sometimes beyond, it is common to raise the problem of the level of generality for maxims. Kant's c... siriskantgeneralitymaxims https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2017/12/fortnightly-books-index-2017.html Siris: Fortnightly Books Index 2017 December 10: G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday Introduction , Review November 26: Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonder... sirisfortnightlybooksindex https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2019_10_13_archive.html Siris: 10/13/19 siris https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2005_11_13_archive.html Siris: 11/13/05 siris https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2012_08_12_archive.html Siris: 08/12/12 siris https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2012_06_24_archive.html Siris: 06/24/12 siris https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2024_08_11_archive.html Siris: 08/11/24 siris https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2005_12_11_archive.html Siris: 12/11/05 siris https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2019/10/tis-old-history.html Siris: 'Tis the Old History The Age to Come by Bl. John Henry Newman When I would search the truths that in me burn, And mould them into rule and argument, A hundr... the oldsiristishistory https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2012/02/unservile-arts.html Siris: The Unservile Arts An interesting article by Andrew Delbanco on the endangerment of liberal arts in the college context . It really does seem that liberal arts... sirisarts https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2010/01/by-infant-tongue-and-looks-of-babish.html Siris: By Infant Tongue and Looks of Babish Eyes The Epiphany by Robert Southwell To blaze the rising of this glorious sun, A glittering star appeareth in the East, Whose sight to pilg... sirisinfanttonguelookseyes https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2017_06_04_archive.html Siris: 06/04/17 siris https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2009_04_19_archive.html Siris: 04/19/09 siris https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2014_04_20_archive.html Siris: 04/20/14 siris https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2013/05/beautified-replenished-comforted-still.html Siris: Beautified, Replenished, Comforted, Still Gazing Ascension Eve by Christina Rossetti O Lord Almighty, Who hast formed us weak, With us whom Thou hast formed deal fatherly; Be found of ... sirisstillgazing https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2022/04/obsolescence.html Siris: Obsolescence I was somewhere on Twitter looking for reading recommendations -- which seem to be harder and harder to find -- and came across a tweet, li... sirisobsolescence https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2005/10/cinematic-sf.html Siris: Cinematic SF Via The Little Professor , this is John Scalzi's list of the most influential science fiction movies ('The Canon' or in other words, 'the 50... siriscinematicsf https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siris,_Italia Siris, Italia - Wikipedia sirisitaliawikipedia https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2011/08/macintyre-on-philosophy-and.html Siris: MacIntyre on Philosophy and Universities Philosophy is in any case a social and not a solitary form of enquiry. It requires a setting in which different and rival answers to philos... sirismacintyrephilosophyuniversities https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2026/04/maurice-leblanc-secret-of-sarek.html Siris: Maurice Leblanc, The Secret of Sarek Introduction Opening Passage: Narratively, either the Foreword or Chapter 1 can be treated as the beginning of the book. From the Forewor... maurice leblancthe secretsirissarek https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2025_04_27_archive.html Siris: 04/27/25 siris https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2023_04_30_archive.html Siris: 04/30/23 siris https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2019/07/hermit-of-annaya.html Siris: Hermit of Annaya Today is the feast of St. Sharbel Makhlouf, or Charbel, monk, priest, and hermit of Lebanon. He joined the Lebanese Maronite Order in 1851, ... sirishermit https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2006/06/solemnity-of-most-holy-trinity.html Siris: Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Today is Trinity Sunday. A lot of people are observing the occasion with the Quicunque Vult (the Creed called Athanasian), but I can think o... of thesirissolemnityholytrinity https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2022/09/ecstatic-heights-in-thought-and-rhyme.html Siris: Ecstatic Heights in Thought and Rhyme Shelley's Skylark by Thomas Hardy (The neighbourhood of Leghorn: March 1887) Somewhere afield here something lies In Earth's oblivious e... sirisecstaticheightsthoughtrhyme https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2008_05_04_archive.html Siris: 05/04/08 siris https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2016/02/lent-i.html Siris: Lent I The way to wisdom is therefore not like that of a man rising from the water into the air, in which, in the moment of rising above the surfac... sirislent https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2008/10/then-gods-of-market-tumbled.html Siris: Then the Gods of the Market Tumbled A word to the wise is sufficient.... The Gods of the Copybook Headings by Rudyard Kipling As I pass through my incarnations in every age and... the godssirismarkettumbled https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2023_02_26_archive.html Siris: 02/26/23 siris https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2015_06_14_archive.html Siris: 06/14/15 siris https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2007/12/definite-conclusions-from-vague-sets-of.html Siris: Standard Conclusions from 'Vague' Sets of Premises A thought about tentative arguments. Suppose we have a pair of premises like the following: -S+M -P+M That is, "All S is M" and "All P is M"... sirisstandardconclusionsvaguesets https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2016/04/a-quick-trip-to-italy-part-viii.html Siris: A Quick Trip to Italy, Part VIII On Thursday we headed off to meet our guide at another major attraction, one that is both in the city of Rome and in another country. The... trip to italysirisquickpartviii https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2023_11_19_archive.html Siris: 11/19/23 siris https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2022/01/dashed-off-ii.html Siris: Dashed Off II To talk about a literary or scholarly canon is to talk about centrality in a network of works. This centrality is affected by (1) extent of... sirisdashedii https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2014/ Siris: 2014 siris https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2019_01_13_archive.html Siris: 01/13/19 siris https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2008/06/holy-spirit-in-trinity.html Siris: The Holy Spirit in the Trinity In an insanely long comments thread on this post , Michael Liccione and Photios Jones (of Energetic Procession ) have been discussing, among... the holy spiritsiristrinity https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2021_05_23_archive.html Siris: 05/23/21 siris https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2005_06_05_archive.html Siris: 06/05/05 siris