Dermot Griffin
Location: Massachusetts, USA
Bio
Interests -
Metaphysics, Theology, and Philosophy of religion (Kierkegaard, Berdyaev, Wesley, Lewis, Chesterton, Sheen, Bonhoeffer, Nagasawa, McGinn, Hegel, Yannaras, Ware, Kyoto School)
Greek philosophy (Platonism, Stoicism, Aristotelianism, Cynicism)
Asian philosophy (Confucianism, Daoism, Mohism, Early Buddhism, Terence James Stannus Gray, Alan Watts)
Scholastic philosophy (Lublin School, Analytical Thomism, Scotism)
Phenomenology (Husserl, Scheler, Stein, Sokolowski)
Personalism (Wojty?a, Bowne)
Psychology, Cognitive science, and Philosophy of mind (Searle, Chalmers, Nagel, Brentano, Jung, Frankl, Ellis, Peterson, Vervaeke)
Medieval philosophy (Aquinas, Duns Scotus, Avicenna, Palamas, Maimonides, Eriugena, Arabi, Suhrawardi)
Philosophy of language and Pragmatism (Wittgenstein, James, Pierce)
Political philosophy (Arendt, Sowell, Kirk, Machiavelli, Locke, Burke, Hobbes, classical conservatism)
Philosophy of education (educational perennialism)
History and Social Studies (American History, Renaissance, Reformation, Romanticism, Enlightenment, Irish History, Crusades, Greco-Roman History, Ancient China, World Wars, Impact of Marxism on the 20th-21st centuries)
Military theory and Philosophy of War (Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, Musashi, Handel, Bassford, Echevarria)
Metaphysics, Theology, and Philosophy of religion (Kierkegaard, Berdyaev, Wesley, Lewis, Chesterton, Sheen, Bonhoeffer, Nagasawa, McGinn, Hegel, Yannaras, Ware, Kyoto School)
Greek philosophy (Platonism, Stoicism, Aristotelianism, Cynicism)
Asian philosophy (Confucianism, Daoism, Mohism, Early Buddhism, Terence James Stannus Gray, Alan Watts)
Scholastic philosophy (Lublin School, Analytical Thomism, Scotism)
Phenomenology (Husserl, Scheler, Stein, Sokolowski)
Personalism (Wojty?a, Bowne)
Psychology, Cognitive science, and Philosophy of mind (Searle, Chalmers, Nagel, Brentano, Jung, Frankl, Ellis, Peterson, Vervaeke)
Medieval philosophy (Aquinas, Duns Scotus, Avicenna, Palamas, Maimonides, Eriugena, Arabi, Suhrawardi)
Philosophy of language and Pragmatism (Wittgenstein, James, Pierce)
Political philosophy (Arendt, Sowell, Kirk, Machiavelli, Locke, Burke, Hobbes, classical conservatism)
Philosophy of education (educational perennialism)
History and Social Studies (American History, Renaissance, Reformation, Romanticism, Enlightenment, Irish History, Crusades, Greco-Roman History, Ancient China, World Wars, Impact of Marxism on the 20th-21st centuries)
Military theory and Philosophy of War (Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, Musashi, Handel, Bassford, Echevarria)
Favourite Philosopher
Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Viktor Frankl, Carl Jung, Thomas Nagel, John Searle, David Chalmers, Meister Eckhart, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Nikolai Berdyaev, Vladimir Lossky, Martin Buber, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Zeno of Citium, Cleanthes, Chrysippus, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Heraclitus, Cicero, Seneca, Plotinus, Proclus, Psuedo-Dionysius, John Scotus Eriugena, St. Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, St. Augustine, St. Maximus the Confessor, St. Gregory of Nyssa, St. Gregory Palamas, Maimonides, Ibn Arabi, Suhrawardi, Confucius, Mencius, Lao Tzu, Zhuangzi, Sun Tzu, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Chu Hsi, Wang Yangming, Zhou Dunyi, Du Weiming, Terence James Stannus Gray, Alan Watts, John C.H. Wu, Ito Jinsai, Kitaro Nishida, Hajime Tanabe, Keiji Nishitani, John Locke, Edmund Burke, Isaiah Berlin, Fulton Sheen, Seraphim Rose, Karol Wojty?a, Mieczys?aw Kr?piec, Leszek Ko?akowski, Robert Sokolowski, Pierre Hadot, Edith Stein, C.S. Lewis, Niccolo Machiavelli, Hannah Arendt, Kallistos Ware, Christos Yannaras, Ludwig Wittgenstein, William James, Charles Sanders Pierce
Favourite Quotations
“Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do.“ - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
“The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see: and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings: fine things to take as models, base things, rotten through and through, to avoid.” - Livy, The History of Rome
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.“ - Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.” - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“Accept the truth from whatever source it comes.” - Maimonides, The Eight Chapters
“Truth is the ultimate end of the whole universe.” - St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“What we cannot speak about we must pass over in
silence.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus
“The truth will set you free.” - John 8:32
“The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see: and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings: fine things to take as models, base things, rotten through and through, to avoid.” - Livy, The History of Rome
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.“ - Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.” - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“Accept the truth from whatever source it comes.” - Maimonides, The Eight Chapters
“Truth is the ultimate end of the whole universe.” - St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“What we cannot speak about we must pass over in
silence.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus
“The truth will set you free.” - John 8:32
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