Howard Kainz has been a
professor at Marquette University, Milwaukee, since 1967, and was a recipient of
an NEH fellowship for 1977-8, and Fulbright fellowships in Germany for 1980-1
and 1987-8. His major publications include Hegel's Phenomenology, Part I:
Analysis and Commentary (1976), Ethica Dialectica: a Study of Ethical Oppositions (1979), The
Philosophy of Man (1981), Hegel's Phenomenology, Part II: The
Evolution of Ethical and Religious Consciousness to the Absolute Standpoint (1983),
Philosophical Perspectives on Peace (1987), Ethics in Context:
toward the Definition and Differentation of the
Morally Good (1988), Paradox, Dialectic and System: a Reconstruction
of the Hegelian Problematic (1988), Democracy and the "Kingdom of
God" (1993), Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: Selections
Translated and Annotated by Howard P. Kainz (1994); GWF Hegel: the Philosophical
System (1996); Natural Law: and
Introduction and Reexamination (2004); The
Philosophy of Human Nature (2008); and The
Existence of God and the Faith-Instinct (2010). His Paradox, Dialectic
and System received the Distinguished Scholarly Book award for 1988.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Howard Kainz
Professor of Philosophy
Marquette University
Special Fields: 19th Century Philosophy, Metaphysics, Ethics
Date of Birth: June 9, 1933
Place of Birth: Inglewood, California
Education: Loyola University, Los Angeles, Philosophy, Classics, 1950-1951, 1953-1957
University of California, Teaching credential, Education, Philosophy, Spring & Summer 1960, Spring 1964
University of California, Greek, Latin, Logic, 1957-1958
St. Louis University, History of Philosophy, 1962-1964
Duquesne University, 19th Century Philosophy, 1964-1968
Degrees: B.A. Loyola University (Los Angeles) 1957
M.A. St. Louis University 1964
Ph.D. Duquesne University 1968
Academic Experience:
Instructor, Maryville College, St. Louis, 1963-1964
Instructor, Mt. Mercy College, Pittsburgh, 1965-1966
Assistant Professor, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, 1966-1967
Assistant Professor, Marquette University, 1967-1973
Associate Professor, Marquette University, 1973-1981
Professor, Marquette University, 1981- 2002
BLOGS
(Online Columns and Articles)
Ethics: Homosexuality, Civil Rights, and Natural Law; If Contraception, Why not Gay Marriage?; Natural Law and Abortion; Natural Law without Nature? Aquinas to the Rescue; Abortion Law: What would Solomon Do?; New Challenges on “Birth Control”; Stemming the Gay Marriage Tide; The Overpopulation Myth and the New Morality; Human Nature and Aquinas’ Taxonomy of Sexual Sins; Homosexuality as Handicap; Abortion and the Slippery Slope; Contraception and Logical Consistency; Sexual Mores, Ethical Theories, and the Overpopulation Myth; A Pro-Choicer Who Defends NFP; “Discrimination” and Gays; What Lies Beneath? Contraception; Conscience and Objectivity; The Ten Commandments and Natural Law; Healthcare and Natural Rights; The “Benedict Option” and Natural Law; Virtue and Temperament; Updating Just-War Theory
Politics: An Anatomy of Our Politics; Failing to Connect the Dots on Contraception; GOP Debaters Still Fail to Connect the Dots; Personally Opposed, But…Some Important Distinctions; The “Catholics for Obama” Syndrome; The “Catholics for Obama” Syndrome II; Classical Versus Contemporary Liberalism; Are Abortion Laws Unenforceable?; Republicans: The Party of Civil Rights?; Abuse of Power in the Executive Branch; The Clarity and Specificity of Thomistic Natural Law; The Dilemma of Pro-Life Democrats; Democracy and Islam: Oil and Water?; Islam and Democracy: Still Oil and Water?; On the “Inevitability” of Gay Marriage; Islamophilia Epidemica; Affirmative Action: Perpetuate or Phase Out?; Can there be Mortal Sin in Voting?; Liberalism as Religion; Which party most supports life? The angst of a pro-life Democrat; Religious Affiliation and the Presidency; Obama: The End of “Affirmative Action”?; Black Crime and White Flight; Marquette and L’affaire McAdams; Firing Professor McAdams: When a Catholic university collides with political correctness; Pro-Life Democrat: a Contradiction in Terms?; A Defense of Single-Issue Voting; Trump “Deplorables” Living in Bizarreland; Prophecies and Charlie’s Angels; Multifacted Approaches to World Peace; How Would We Enforce New Abortion Laws?; “Just-War” Theory: Still Relevant?; Another Phase in the Cultural Proxy War; Immigration Laws and the Human Flow
Religion: Updating
the Faith-Instinct; A
Liberal God, Revealed; Islam
and the Definition of Religion; When
Religion Gets Violent; The
Necessity of Miracles; Mormons
and Christianity: Asking the Right Questions; Robin Hood, King Arthur,
Muhammad; Muhammad,
the Movie – Not!; Faith and
False Prophets; Is Islam
a Religion?; Books
to Challenge Skeptics on Miracles; Religious Commitment: the Natural-Law Criteria;
The
Lowest Place in Heaven; The
“Perfection” of Mohammed; Religion
and Violence; Can
Muslims be Converted?; Sex
and Religion; Christians
as “Soft Targets”; On
the Reformation of Islam; The
Church and Islam; How
it all Ends: Muslim and Christian Versions; Islam
and the Decalogue; Is
Islam an “Abrahamic” Religion?; Religion
and the Re-classification of Islam; The
Two Religions of the Koran; Real
and Fake “Good News” in Religion; https://catholicstand.com/god-religion-and-near-death-experiences
Christianity: Jesus’ “Brothers”; A Defense of “Organized” Religion; Cautious Reflections on Hell; Lawless Christians; Invincible Ignorance; What if Jesus had been Accepted as Messiah; What Hath Protestantism Wrought?; What St. Paul Really Meant by Female “Subordination”; The Christian Vestiges of Post-Christianity; Second Thoughts about the Second Coming; The Weirdness of Commanding Love; The Secret Disciples; The Esau Syndrome; How Can Protestants be Saved?; The Faith of Christians; Need a Laugh? Read the New Testament. Really.; Hell, You Say?; Today’s “Widows and Orphans”; The Distinctiveness of Christianity; Personalities in the Trinity; The Varieties of Crosses; A Brief Primer on the Devil; Unbaptized Grandkids, Natural Happiness, and Limbo
Catholicism: Vatican II and the Two Ends of Marriage; The “Spirit of Vatican II”; Who can be Saved?; The Protestantization of the Church; Holy Slavery?; The Abuse Crisis and Church Independence; The Penance now Required; Frequent Communion: Pros and Cons; Inclusive Language and the Liturgy; Marriage: Contract vs. Sacrament; The Three Temptations of the Church; What is Happening at Medjugorje?; Tyranny of the Extroverts, In Church and Out; Whatever Happened to Mortal Sin?; AA-1025 and the Catholic Church “Makeover”; Catholicism and Suffering; Islam and the Outer Limits of Ecumenism; Understanding Papal Infallibility; The “Balancing Act” of Karl Rahner and Luise Rinser; Fatima and World Peace; Pope Francis and Church “Rules”; Corpus Christi and Reality; Holy Days: the Other “Elephant in the Room”; When Satan Pulls Wool over our Eyes; Marriage, Divorce, and Constructive Casuistry; Hitchcock’s “History of the Catholic Church”; Catholicism and Obedience; On Fatima & the Private Interpretation of Private Revelations; The Church: God Writing Straight with Crooked Lines; Behind the Scenes at Vatican II; Mary the Paradox; The Elephant at the Synod: Contraception; Three Marian Paradoxes at Christmas; Joy – and its Limitations; Fátima vs. the Conspiracy Theories; The Fatima Message: a Final Chapter?; Reflections on the Novus Ordo Mass; The Internal Forum and Catholic Remarriage; Forms of Lay Spirituality; Marriage, Validity and Invalidity; Pope Francis in Conciliar Context; Fatima Mysteries; Queen of Angels; Homilies on Hot Topics; Our King and Queen; Pope Francis’ “Cultural Revolution”; Covid-19: Filling Empty Churches, and the Eucharist
Philosophy: Socrates, Guardian Angels, and Conscience; The Trinity Made More Intelligible; Artificial Intelligence and Angelology; Secularism’s Victory through Osmosis; Intelligent Design: Atheists to the Rescue; Subsidiarity on Earth and in Heaven; Rather be an Angel?; The Problem of Good; The Anatomy of Sloth; What Will We Do in Heaven?; Gay Pride: a Politically Incorrect Dialogue; Hegel: the Protestant Aquinas?; The Future of Thomism; The Evolution of Conscience in the Western World; Morality and its Interconnections; Are Religious Teachings Fairy Tales?; Intelligent Design: Philosophy or Science?; Do Natural Rights Really Exist?; Existence: the Soul’s Default Condition; Reconsidering Scholasticism; A Defense of Thomistic Natural Law; Certain Angelic Characteristics of Computers; Angels and their Hierarchies; The Afterlife, Revisited; Evolution and Faith, Updated; Drugs and the Pursuit of Happiness; What is Truth?; Artificial Intelligence and Angelology
French translations: Le salut, pour qui ?; Anatomie de notre politique; L’esprit de Vatican II; Homosexualité, Droits civiques
et Loi Naturelle; Faire pénitence de nos jours.; Revelation
D’un Dieu Liberal; Les
abus sexuels et l’indépendance de l’Église;
Le
mythe de la surpopulation
et la nouvelle moralité; Mahomet,
faire un film ? Oh ! Non !; le problème de la Bonté;
Conséquence de la déferlante
pour le mariage gay; Préfèreriez-vous être
un ange ?; “Contrôle des naissances”, de nouveaux défis; Le
catholicisme et la souffrance;
Le
syndrome “Catholiques pro-Obama” II; Ignorance involontaire; Le mariage : un contrat ?non, un sacrement !; Mariage “gay“ : inévitable
?; Comprendre l’infaillibilité
pontificale; Islam
et démocratie : toujours
pas plus miscibles que l’huile
et l’eau.; Fatima
et la paix dans la monde; François
et les règlements en
vigueur; HEGEL
: le saint THOMAS d’AQUIN protestant ?; L’avenir du Thomisme; Le
corps du Christ, la réalité; Moral et
autre principes; Les
fêtes d’obligation, un sujet tabou; Comment
les protestants peuvant-ils etre
sauves?; Le mariage, le divorce et une casuistique constructive; Catholicisme et obéissance;
Dans les coulisses de Vatican II; La plus petite place au Paradis; Obama : fin de la "Discrimination
positive" ?; L'éléphant au synode
: la contraception; Trois Paradoxes Mariaux
À Noel; La « perfection » de Mahomet;
La Joie et ses limites; L’Université Marquette et l’affaire
MacAdams; Fátima et les théories
du complot; Religion et violence; “Discrimination » et homosexuels; La foi des chrétiens; Le message de Fatima : un ultime
épisode?; Qu’est-il arrivé
au péché mortel?;
Histoire de l'Eglise
catholique, de James Hitchcock; Une pro-choix défend le planning familial naturel; Sexe et religion; Vous avez dit
Enfer?; Que se cache-t-il derrière la
contraception ?; Réflexions sur le Novus Ordo de la messe; La veuve et l'orphelin
de notre époque; Conscience et objectivité;
Les chrétiens
ne seraient-ils pas des cibles
faciles?; Les Anges - leur hiérarchie; "Démocrate
pro-vie", une expression-contradiction ?;
L’Église et l’islam;
La vie après la vie - quelques remarques; L'eschatologie selon l'islam et selon le christianisme; For interne et remariage
catholique; Mariage, validité
et nullité; Islam et Décalogue;
Foi et théories
de l'évolution, un point actuel;
Les dix commandements
et la loi naturelle; Les personnalités
qui font laTrinité; Les prophéties
et les anges de Charlie; Islam: une religion
issue d’Abraham?; Comment faire appliquer les nouvelles
lois sur l’avortement?; La diversité
des croix; Les drogues et la recherche du bonheur;
Qu’est-ce que la vérité
?; Les mystères
de Fatima; La
théorie de la guerre juste
est-elle toujours pertinente ?
Portuguese translations: O
Problema do Bem; O
Mito da Superpopulação e a Nova Moralidade; O
que nos trouxe o Protestantismo?; Fátima
e a Paz no Mundo; Corpus
Christi e a realidade; A "História
da Igreja Católica"
de Hitchcock; O Grande Ausente do Sínodo: A Contracepçao;
Uma Pró-escolha
que Defende os Métodos Naturais;
Fátima e as Teorias
da Conspiraçao; As Viúvas e os Orfaos dos Nossos
Tempos; Co zaprícinilo
modernú kultúrnu
revolúciu? Antikoncepcia;
A Igreja e o Islao; O Foro Interno e os Católicos
Recasados; Islao e os Dez Mandamentos; Formas de espiritualidad
laica; Cómo termina todo:
las versiones musulmanas y cristianas; Personalidades na
Trindade; Personalidades na
Trindade; Diferentes Tipos de
Cruzes; Mistérios de Fátima; Actualizar a Teoria da Guerra Justa; As Duas Religiões do Alcorão;
Čo vieme a nevieme o diabloch
Slavic translations: Pokánie, o ktoré dnes ide; Mučeníctvo sa málokedy deje rýchlo; O čom je pápežská neomylnosť; K VECI: Islam a demokracia: stále ako olej a voda; Film o Mohamedovi? Ani náhodou!; K veci: Fatima zmenila dejiny sveta; Budúcnosť tomizmu; Fátima e as Teorias da Conspiraçao; Pro-choice autorka sa pustila do boja proti antikoncepcii; Je mozné obrátit moslimov?; Fatimské posolstvo: posledná kapitola?; Co zaprícinilo modernú kultúrnu revolúciu? Antikoncepcia; Treba odsúdit islam?; Ako reformovat islam?; Mnohí svätí mali kontakty s anjelmi. Aká je ich hierarchia?; Krestania sú pre nenásilnú povahu ,mäkkymi cielmi"; Vnútorné fórum a druhé manzelstvá rozvedenych katolíkov; Evolúcia a viera: ako sme na tom?; Ako by sme mohli obmedzit potraty a co potom; Drogy a hladanie štastia; Nemali by sme preklasifikovat islam?; Je teória spravodlivej vojny stále relevantná?
Spanish: La Penitencia requerida ahora; Conciencia y Objetividad; Formas de la espiritualidad laica; Cómo termina todo: las versiones musulmanas y cristianas; Las personalidades en la Trinidad; Los secretos de Fátima; Asistencia médica y derechos naturales; ¿Homilías sobre temas calientes?;