Our Philosophy
Founders and Editors
Comarbae | Editor-in-Chief
Educated at The Catholic University of America
Political Philosophy
War on Being
Adeodatus M | Editor-at-Large
Educated at The Catholic University of America
Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas
JSM | Editor-at-Large
Educated at The Catholic University of America
Philosophy of St. Augustine
Intellect in Service of Truth
Recovering the scholastic inheritance to illuminate the crises of the present age.
A Return to First Principles
The modern age is not suffering from a shortage of opinion. It is suffering from a shortage of philosophy. Beneath every contested question in politics, economics, and public morality there lies a prior and more fundamental dispute — one about the nature of the human person, the proper ordering of society, and the ends toward which both are directed. These are not novel questions. They were treated, with extraordinary rigor and depth, by the great thinkers of the scholastic tradition.
War on Being exists to recover that tradition and apply its tools to the problems confronting us now. Drawing on the patrimony of Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, and their successors — as well as the broader legacy of Catholic philosophical and theological inquiry — we seek to engage the contemporary world not with slogans, but with argument; not with sentiment, but with reason disciplined by faith.
Rigorous Inquiry Across Four Domains
Our work is organized around the conviction that the scholastic method — the disciplined interrogation of received opinion through structured argument, distinction, and synthesis — is not a relic of the medieval university. It is a living intellectual practice capable of generating genuine insight wherever it is applied with care.
Philosophy Metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of the human person — explored through primary texts and rigorous commentary.
"Our soul is made to the image of God, and therefore capable of Him." — Augustine, De
Trinitate
Politics Natural law, subsidiarity, and the common good as foundations for evaluating
regimes, institutions, and political action.
"Without justice, what are kingdoms but great robberies?" — Augustine, City of God, IV.4
Economics A critique of economic systems and assumptions in light of distributive justice, the just price, and the social doctrine of the Church.
"To diminish the perfection of creatures is to diminish the perfection of divine power." — Thomas Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles
Morality Systematic moral theology and virtue ethics brought to bear on the ethical controversies defining the present moment.
Argument Without Accommodation
We do not assume that the presuppositions of late modernity are self-evidently correct. We take seriously the possibility that a tradition stretching from Athens through Jerusalem to Rome has preserved genuine wisdom — wisdom capable of diagnosing what has gone wrong and pointing, with some specificity, toward what might be recovered.
This is not nostalgia. It is the recognition that certain questions about human flourishing admit of better and worse answers, and that the scholastic tradition, with its robust account of nature, reason, and the transcendent, is better equipped to provide them than many of the alternatives presently on offer.
We write for those who sense that contemporary discourse has foreclosed certain possibilities of thought — and who wish to reopen them.
You were not made merely to exist. You were made for being — and the war against that truth is one worth fighting.
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