Harvey: The Blood and the Body
Harvey: The Blood and the Body By Matt McKeown All subsequent medicine owes William Harvey an inestimable debt. Sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe saw a great flowering of scientists. …
Montaigne: The Checkered Shades of Faith
Montaigne: The Checkered Shades of Faith By Matt McKeown Belief and skepticism strike us as opposites, but paradox is a familiar element in belief. As we know, the …
James: Function, Fact, and Faith
James: Function, Fact, and Faith By Matt McKeown The work of William James has shaped all later discussions of academic fields from psychotherapy to mysticism. The last third …
The Great Conversation: Good & Evil
The Great Conversation: Good & Evil By Matt McKeown Throughout recorded history and perhaps before it, good and evil have been among the principal interests of man. Though …
Fitzgerald: The Age of Jazz
Fitzgerald:The Age of Jazz By Matt McKeown Fun and unhappiness blend in a peculiar manner in Fitzgerald’s work. Though he died abruptly of a heart attack at only …
The Great Conversation: World
The Great Conversation: World By Matt McKeown “Had we but world enough, and time” for a proper treatment of such a complex subject … The word world means …
Journey Through the Author Bank Begins Tomorrow!
Our Journey Through the Author Bank Seminar Series Begins Tomorrow! Want to start reading the great books for yourself? Now’s the time! The CLT Author Bank is a …
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Hegel: Dialectics of Being
Hegel: Dialectics of Being By Matt McKeown Though his philosophy seems to be the airiest and most abstract of any thinker, we grapple with the consequences of Hegel’s …
Ptolemy: Cartographer of the Heavens
Ptolemy: Cartographer of the Heavens By Matt McKeown The Ptolemaic system has become a byword for backwardness, yet in truth, Ptolemy is arguably the father of science. Still …
The Great Conversation: One & Many
The Great Conversation: One & Many By Matt McKeown “One” and “more than one” do not seem like complex ideas on the surface … The “problem of the …
