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I Think Therefore I Thank

Robert Royal

Thursday, November 22, 2018

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“To think is to thank” is a saying used by figures as different as G.K. Chesterton, a cheery theist, and — of all people — Martin Heidegger, a dark existentialist.  (Denken/Danken works in German, too). But the differences between what they each meant are stark and instructive [1].

Robert Royal is editor-in-chief of The Catholic Thing and president of the Faith & Reason Institute in Washington, D.C. His most recent books are Columbus and the Crisis of the West and A Deeper Vision: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition in the Twentieth Century.