Moses, happy man?

This article exams the Biblical figure Moses in the light of both ancient and modern understandings of happiness, asking whether Moses himself was happy, and what that might mean, and whether he may be considered an example of a “felicitator,” one who works successfully for the happiness of others

[Book Review] Enlightened monks : the German Benedictines, 1740-1803

Reprinted with permission of the Catholic Historical Review, where this review was first printed in vol. 98, issue 3.Book Review for Enlightened Monks: The German Benedictines, 1740-1803. By Ulrich L. Lehner, Oxford U.P., 2011, ISBN 9780199595129. Ulrich Lehner has written a book that anyone with an interest in eighteenth-century Catholicism and the more general phenomenon of religious Enlightenment will want to read. Focused on the roughly 150 monasteries (composed of some 3500-4000 professed monks) in the German-speaking Benedictine communities of southern and Middle Germany, Austria, and Switzerland over the course of the eighteenth century, the book draws on extensive primary research in local and regional archives as well as the very best of contemporary scholarship in German and English.peer-reviewe

La política española desde la perspectiva del London Times : 1930-36

En julio de 1938 José Ortega y Gasset publica una adaptación de su breve ensayo titulado «En cuanto al pacifismo» en la revista de reseñas inglesa, The Nineteenth Century. En su versión anglo-sajona, el ensayo constituía una crítica a la práctica política del pacifismo y a la vez desarrollaba el tema de las distorsiones y perversiones que acompañan la opinión pública del exterior. De paso, Ortega señalaría como nítido ejemplo el caso de la guerra civil española, observando que en el mundo moderno dicha opinión pública podría manifestarse como una fuerza activa e incursionaria en las acciones de países soberanos como España