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Very Protestant understanding of the Church you've got. Makes me wonder why you're Catholic.

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Mostly for the metaphysics and the Liturgy and the Eucharist, I guess. I phenomenologically drift to where the magic's at. And I'm Eastern Catholic—not a fan of Rome.

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I would have thought that epistemology would figure in there somewhere.

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Most of my epistemology is from Kierkegaard and has to do with the axiomatic nature of what we consider final authority: at some point, we must choose a thing we cannot prove. And on that front, I could be described as an intuitionist.

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I've never read Kierkegaard, but that looks spot-on to me. Basically it comes down to that you have to start somewhere.

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He is the greatest philosopher who ever lived—and he’s also a lot of fun. Check out the editions from Princeton UP, translated by the Hongs.

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