Faith, reason, and the examined life

Summa
Rationum.

Arguments worth
returning to.

A living collection of arguments, questions, and foundations. Written in pursuit of understanding, and kept here to be returned to.

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Collected & written by
Maximiliaan Dirk
Saint Augustine at his desk, surrounded by books and scholarly instruments, in Botticelli’s fresco
Saint Augustine in His StudySandro Botticelli · c. 1480
A personal scholastic libraryIn pursuit of understandingA living collection

The purpose of this collection

To consider carefully.
To understand more deeply.

This is a place for sustained thought: works on faith and philosophy, arguments about the moral life, and the foundations on which they rest.

Inspired by the Christian tradition of study and disputation, the collection grows through writing, reconsideration, and careful distinctions. Its end is the edification of author and reader.

About the collection

The collection

A place to begin.

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A work of reason.
A spirit of charity.

For the edification of author and reader