Comments for Unity versus Diversity at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 9 out of 9 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Sun, 19 May 2013 15:51:07 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/unity-versus-diversity.html#comment-1770 Dear Professor McInerny, I had the pleasure of taking two or three classes from you at ND in mid 1950's. How proud and delighted I am to read what you are writing today! God bless you and your work....My Best, A Former Student of Yours, John McCarthy, ND '58 - John McCarthy Sat, 16 May 2009 10:31:50 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/unity-versus-diversity.html#comment-1736 Thank you professor. You certainly make this book sound well worth reading. I appreciate your remarks and will purchase the book! - ron adley Mon, 11 May 2009 22:37:24 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/unity-versus-diversity.html#comment-1726 MacIntyre is not only a brilliant Catholic philosopher, but also a most controversial one. The integrity of MacIntyre's thought is admirable and unique, but often those controversial aspects of this thought, such as his political philosophy, are ignored or dismissed by "conservative" Catholic thinkers. In 2004, he advised Catholics not to vote in the fraud and farce that is American electoral politics. MacIntyre criticizes the nation-state itself, for it is not genuinely political, nor can be. - Thaddeus Kozinski Mon, 11 May 2009 11:43:07 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/unity-versus-diversity.html#comment-1725 The State of the University makes its name an oxymoron. I think of even greater concern and contributing even more evil to society is the state of the public primary and secondary schools who have taken their lead from the corrupt universities. multi culturalism and egalitarianism have taken place of the cardina lvirtues. Public schools explicitly teach the 7 deadly sins. Start with self esteem building- false pride. "values free" education will be the death of western civilization. - Achilles Mon, 11 May 2009 11:42:26 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/unity-versus-diversity.html#comment-1727 Dear Professor McInerny, I am a former student of yours (Dante and Aquinas, spring 2005), and I absolutely loved your course! It was just such courses that convinced me to dig a little deeper and reflect on intellectual inquiry and my Catholic Faith. This fall, after a somewhat serpentine path of my own, I will be coming back to ND to study Patristics. I have never been more excited to learn and to grow in my life. Thank you, Ralph (pace tua dixerim)! Sis bono animo! Daniel Kettinger - DJK Mon, 11 May 2009 11:35:06 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/unity-versus-diversity.html#comment-1724 James, I do agree with you! Relative truth is no truth is at all. Truth is variable according to history and the constructs of the human mind, so say the relatavist. The only Truth is that there is no Truth. This is the philosophy of the post-modernist, which in an of itself is a contradiction. Diversity need not preclude Truth. - William Dennis Mon, 11 May 2009 10:12:10 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/unity-versus-diversity.html#comment-1723 Welcome the "rise of pragmatism"... being a Catholic philosopher in a large state school, I can vouch that teachers (professors) are not concerned with teaching. As a matter of fact, most professors only spend close to 2 hours a week teaching and are more concerned about keeping their door closed so they can publish another article and fulfill their tenure requirements. I can't help but think for many, tenure is the end of philosophy, not Truth...how sad. - Andrew Mon, 11 May 2009 10:11:51 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/unity-versus-diversity.html#comment-1722 The basic problem, Mr. Dennis, is not that "values" are held to be relative. It is that so-called Catholic universities either conduct themselves as if, or actually believe, that there is no truth to be known, which is the position of modernist non-believers. However, knowledge of the truth is both the proper end of education and of the Catholic Faith. It is therefore an absurd position for a Catholic University to adopt and cannot but lead to apostasy. - James the Least Mon, 11 May 2009 08:57:39 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/unity-versus-diversity.html#comment-1721 I have not read MacIntyre's book but it seems to me that diversity today is a euphemism for relatavism. Values once considered absolute are meaningless. No, I am not against diversity if it doesn't destroy the moral fabric of a society. Present day diversity has turned our university youth into empty souls full of ephemeral concepts of non-reality. Romance and love affairs are gone, only relationships expected to end. Alternate sexual lifesyles are acceptable in the name of diversity. - William Dennis Mon, 11 May 2009 07:46:47 +0100