Edvard Lorkovic
Edvard Lorkovic is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta. A generalist by choice, if not by formation, his teaching and research focus on moral and political issues in ancient and late modern philosophy.
It’s Always the Right Time to Leisure
Many years ago, I attended an academic talk that left a lasting impression – more so for my reaction to it than for its...
Acedia and Total Amusement
We live in slothful times. I don’t mean to say that our age is uniquely lazy, however common indolence may happen to be. Modern...
Contemporary Despair and Misplaced Hopes
In good part because the rhetorical trick is quickly becoming hackneyed, I will not herein aver the existence of a “real pandemic” behind the...
The Magnanimity of Bearing Misfortune Beautifully
Trite and tautological though the claim may be, permit me to begin by stating the obvious: it is good when good things happen. Good...
Starving Souls Need Leisure
The body needs food. All people go hungry some of the time. We often feel at least a tiny bit sorry for someone who...
Adoration and Philosophy
All Catholics should go to Eucharistic Adoration. Most Catholics, myself included, should go to Adoration more than they do, whether they go regularly, occasionally,...
Hunted by Sophists
Plato had something against the sophists, those itinerant teachers of rhetoric who rose to prominence in the fifth century BC, mostly in Athens. The...
What’s Wrong with the World? Well, The Hatred of Words, and the Word
I suspect there are few people left who don’t think there’s something very wrong in the world today, whatever their political and moral leanings...
Is University Worth It?
As cliché as it sounds, we are living in unprecedented times. This is no less true in colleges and universities than it is elsewhere. ...
Manliness, Courage and the Fear of Death
I recently returned from a trip to visit my family in Montreal and spend some time with old friends in the countryside nearby. Across...
