Lionel Obadia, Satan

Lionel Shingleton Smith

Lionel Sharples Penrose (1898-1972).

Ergotism: the satan loosed in Salem?

Numerous hypotheses have been devised to explain the occurrence of the Salem witchcraft trials in 1692, yet a sense of bewilderment and doubt pervades most of the historical perspectives on the subject. The physical afflictions of the accusing girls and the imagery of the testimony, therefore, is dismissed as imaginary in foundation. One avenue of understanding that has yet to be sufficiently e...

Lionel Robbins: Neoclassical Maximizer or Proto-praxeologist?

Austrian economists writing after the so-called Austrian revival of the 1970s have generally been dismissive of Lionel Robbins’s An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science (Robbins 1932), denying it a significant role in shaping the modern praxeological paradigm in economics.1 Their attitude in this regard has been heavily influenced by the views of Israel Kirzner. Kirzner (197...

On Satan, Demons, and Daimons: An Archetypal Exploration

Satan—or the Devil, as he is alternatively known—has remained among the most popular of archetypal figures of Western civilization for more than two millennia. Evidence of strong ongoing popular interest in this imaginal figure—to say nothing of Satan’s horde of demons—can easily seen in the results of even the most cursory ad-hoc research on the World Wide Web. For example, a simple recent sea...