The Original Visitor: Hello. I’m back.
Last week I told about my conversation with Standish Wanhope (of course that's not his real name), my table mate at the opening dinner of a conference, who had pushed his atheism so aggressively throughout the meal.
People speak so much more preposterously in real life than in fiction. I used to write fictional dialogues for college students. Though I presented the dialogues as fictional, most were at least influenced by actual conversations, and a few of them were very nearly transcripts.
I was talking last week about the young man whom the experience of reading Aristotle’s Ethics had “scared.” In talking with him, I dropped the ball, and I promised to tell how.
How to Pronounce My Last Name
My surname, Budziszewski, is pronounced Boo-jee-shef-skee.
Bu = Boo
dzi = jee
szew = shef
ski = skee
People make interesting comments:
It's German, right?
I know a guy named Buchanan. Are you related?
Are you making that up?
It's Czech, right?
My post this week is a short one. I’ve been writing about the ways of bringing suppressed moral knowledge back to the surface. Last time I emphasized that these ways are merely illustrations, not magic tricks to be played on every audience, not use-on-all-occasions conversational stratagems. Sometimes, I said, the only thing to do is nothing – or what
Biola University, 2013