“There are times in life when the question of knowing if one can think differently than one thinks, and perceive differently than one sees, is absolutely necessary if one is to go on thinking and reflecting at all.” - Michel Foucault Few potential accusations can strike fear into the hearts of enlightened moderns as...
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America is assumed to be different. We are different because Christianity is thought still to thrive in America. Whereas Christianity is allegedly dying in Europe, it seems alive and well in America. That Christianity still seems a vital faith in America confirms for many the contention that there is an inherent link between Christianity...
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You see a known murderer break into your neighbor’s house. Your neighbor and his entire family are sound asleep; the only people awake are you and the murderer. You grab your handgun from its hiding place and quietly follow him into the house. You enter to find the murderer poised over your neighbor’s children’s...
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O let none say I Love until aware What huge resources it will take to nurse One ruining speck, one tiny hair That casts a shadow through the universe: We are the deaf immured within a loud And foreign language of revolt, a crowd Of poaching hands and mouths who out of fear Have...
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“You do not possess the truth; it is the truth that possesses you.” St. Thomas Aquinas, Quaestiones disputatae de Veritate (1259) I. TO BE OR NOT TO BE “Why,” asks Leibniz, “is there something rather than nothing?” This question is not unique to Leibniz; Baron Rees of Ludlow, an English astrophysicist and current president...
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Reframing Propositional Truth Pilate’s famous question, “What is truth?” now rings from every corner of contemporary American culture, if in fact the question is asked at all. In many cases, the very idea of truth is no longer regarded as important or “relevant” to daily life. A number of factors have contributed to this...
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The Philosophy of Friendship “It is not in human nature to be indifferent to political power; and if the price men have to pay for it is the sacrifice of friendship, they think their treason will be thrown into the shade by the magnitude of the reward. A man, then, who has shown a...
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