Mark Lilla

1 month ago | lawliberty.org | Mark Lilla |James Patterson |Titus Techera |Asheesh Agarwal

with Mark Lilla, hosted by James M. Patterson The drive to pursue wisdom is engrained in every human being, right? So many have believed. But in his new book, Ignorance and Bliss, Mark Lilla argues that a certain “will to ignorance” is also part of the human experience. Like Plato’s Thrasymachus, many in the modern world want to throw up their hands in resignation rather than commit themselves to the pursuit of truth.

Dec 5, 2024 | almendron.com | Mark Lilla

Aristóteles enseñó que todos los seres humanos quieren saber. Nuestra propia experiencia nos enseña que todos los seres humanos también quieren no saber, a veces intensamente. Esto siempre ha sido cierto, pero hay ciertos periodos históricos en los que la negación de verdades evidentes parece ganar la partida, como si algún virus psicológico se propagara por medios desconocidos, el antídoto fuera repentinamente impotente. Este es uno de esos periodos.

Dec 2, 2024 | nytimes.com | Mark Lilla

Aristotle taught that all human beings want to know. Our own experience teaches us that all human beings also want not to know, sometimes fiercely so. This has always been true, but there are certain historical periods when the denial of evident truths seems to be gaining the upper hand, as if some psychological virus were spreading by unknown means, the antidote suddenly powerless. This is one of those periods.

Nov 15, 2024 | unherd.com | Mark Lilla

De TocquevilleDemocracyLiberalismPoliticsSolidarityUS I’ve been teaching Tocqueville’s Democracy in America for a very long time. But only recently have I come to appreciate some of his deepest assumptions and their implications about the whole democratic experiment. In particular I’ve been thinking about the opening two paragraphs of the book. I had always rushed past them, since they seemed anodyne.

Nov 1, 2024 | letraslibres.com | Mark Lilla |Daniel Gascón |Bárbara Mingo Costales |Gabriel Zaid

Cuando se busca algo que se ha perdido, cualquier cosa es una señal. Eudora Welty, “La gran red”Una mañana nublada a fines de la década de 1980 visité la iglesia que estaba frente a mi departamento en París, cruzando la calle. Tenía curiosidad. La parroquia de San Nicolás del Chardonnet era entonces la sede del arzobispo Marcel Lefebvre, un opositor cismático de las reformas del Vaticano II que acababa de ser excomulgado por el papa Juan Pablo II.