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Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

My latest post: "Any claim made about human life and activity must be subjected to this standard: can it bear the form of self-consciousness? Can it be understood from the inside?"

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Kant's Irreversible Achievement

The Centrality of Self-Consciousness

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Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

This morning, I'm delivering my first ever homily at our parish, on the "many dwellings" of John 14, and why Jesus is *not* talking about heaven.

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Homily for the Fifth Sunday of Easter

The Myth of Heavenly "Mansions"

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Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

If this is about Big Mistakes the show does get better but I do often find this to be the case with him.

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Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

My latest post: what I learned from an excellent interview with Anastasia Berg. How can we reach students who have never developed the capacities liberal education takes for granted?

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The Best Conversation I've Heard on AI and Pedagogy

Recommended: the work of Anastasia Berg

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Good. More please.

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Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

We're going to be tired of winning. (It passed)

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Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

My latest: "One who cannot see the vestiges of God 'in created things' is blind, deaf, and mute... By contrast, if one fully appropriates the implications of one’s senses and the world they contain, the natural culmination is doxology. 'Unlock your lips… lest the entire world rise up against you.'"

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The Logic of the Itinerarium: Chapter 1b (§10-15)

From Sense Powers to Self-Return

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Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

The latest in my series on the Itinerarium, in which I discuss the problems raised by the work’s structure—clear as it might seem at first. “The work seems to be zeroing in on an Incarnational center, finding in the hypostatic union the most wondrous site of sustained contradiction."

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The Logic of the Itinerarium: Chapter 1a (§1-9)

Ascending and Descending on Jacob's Ladder

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Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

A new series begins... "In opening Bonaventure’s Itinerarium, as in all the great classics of the genre, we find ourselves confronted not with the spiritual journey of a particular pilgrim but the universal odyssey of Soul."

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Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Excellent, for sure. But accessible? Not sure... it's pretty dense! We're doing a reading group here at Assumption soon. It may also depend on which edition as they are substantively different.

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Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I dreamed that I was back at Hillsdale College for an Honors Program annual retreat and they had Jamelle Bouie as one of the professors.

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Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

That was Jim Stephens and George Angell

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Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Damn I forgot the Rhetorical Psychoanalysis of Paul

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Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

- an independent study on Balthasar's Barth book - Interstellar Travel - A course entirely about the movie My Dinner With Andre - Epicureanism - Weightlifting

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Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I'm the weird person who agrees with the second tweet here but not the first.

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Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

My latest: substacktools.com/sharex/0cKSx...

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Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

My latest post: We get clear on Plato’s so-called “unwritten doctrines,” which Aristotle will revise and perfect. We also learn how Plato’s commitment to idealism and the status of myth in his corpus. open.substack.com/pub/awildlog...

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How Did We Get Here (From Plato)?

The Speculative Aristotle: Part II

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Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Aristotle is a speculative thinker of the highest caliber. I reflect here on the obstacles that prevent us from appreciating the depth of his thinking He need not be seen in theological, mystical, and speculative circles as Plato’s junior colleague.

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Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Baby's first Know Your Enemy episode. Well, actually, we're wondering if he recognizes Sam and Matt's voices from in utero

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

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Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

If you are in Boston for AAR 2025, consider attending my paper in the Plato and Platonisms unit. That is, if Sarah has not given birth by then (it's just 3 days before the due date)! Monday, November 24th 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM | Sheraton, Arnold Arboretum (Fifth Floor)

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Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

The Other Journal? IDK it's a bleak landscape

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Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I have her book Babel and given my genre interests was hoping against my doubts it would be good. We will see, but this seems like a nay vote.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

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Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

The problem is that the Enlightenment, in its abstraction, is so allergic to dependence and mediation that it cannot pass through this initial moment.

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Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I think that the goal of the Gospel of John is to overcome or sublate our relationship of dependence on God. Christ is a "vanishing mediator" upon whom we are initially dependent as something external but who wishes to become internal, at which point Enlightenment autonomy and independence occur.

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Yoni Appelbaum @yappelbaum.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

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Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Got my first email from a student who has a parent being deported. It's bad out there.

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Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I'm working on some jokes about this album and second temple mysticism

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Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

In Hudson, MA (population ~20,000) the No Kings crowd was 750+.

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Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Visited my favorite bookstore again (Commonwealth Books in Newport)

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Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

I'd check W.T. Kirby and Gary Thorne.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 08/10/2025

I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

My latest post takes on the Manichean vision of Stephen Miller, and the intellectual cover provided by the recent remarks of Hillsdale's Larry Arnn.

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The Metaphysics of MAGA

Evil in the Eyes of Stephen Miller and Larry Arnn

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Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I went to a Willi Carlisle concert last week and the first sentence he said upon taking the stage was: “It’s so good to be with you in these latter days of Babylon.” Check out Winged Victory. My album of the year so far.

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

First Things is now running interference for Jeffrey Epstein if you were wondering how things are going over there

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Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I do not. I heard there was an email but did not receive it myself (I'm an adjunct).

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Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

At a conference on campus, a faculty member reported an email had gone out to faculty stating that ICE was outside St. Ignatius, the church on campus.

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Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Reports that ICE is on the Boston College campus currently

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."

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Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

www.academia.edu/109208834/Ne...

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Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

The second installment of my philosophical dialogue has now been published. I re-examine the interpretative problem of Chalcedon and then dive into the various senses of the term "identity."

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Christology: Analogy or Identity? (Part II)

Chalcedon Revisited and a Philosophical Interlude

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