The Great Conversation: Knowledge
The Great Conversation: Knowledge By Gabriel Blanchard They say a little learning is a dangerous thing … Writing about knowledge is a tricky business: everything we either write …
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The Great Conversation: Change
The Great Conversation:Change By Gabriel Blanchard Change is—ironically—constant. Change is, of course, an impossibly vast subject. Virtually everything in our experience changes; the whole material world is defined …
Student Essay: Descartes’ Children
Student Essay: Descartes’ Children By Filomena Bertucci The radical doubt of modern philosophy is itself tied to a fundamentally flawed concept of human nature. In our study of …
The Great Conversation: Truth
The Great Conversation: Truth By Kate Colón-Crespo “What is truth?” The question leveled at Jesus at his trial is one of the great questions of humanity. A definition …
The Great Conversation: Faith
The Great Conversation: Faith By Gabriel Blanchard Faith is one of the single most contentious topics in the Great Conversation, and that is saying a great deal. Faith …
The Great Conversation: Art
The Great Conversation: Art By Matt McKeown “Art for art’s sake”; what, then, is art’s sake? Art is a difficult subject to cover, partly because it is a …
The Great Conversation: Will
The Great Conversation: Will By Matt McKeown Is the human will free? And if so, free of what? Free will is one of the most enduring problems in …
Now Announcing the 2022 CLT Author Bank!
Now Announcing The 2022 CLT Author Bank! By Angel Adams Parham Introduction to the Author Bank “The best which has been thought and said” is the pithy little …
The Great Conversation: State
The Great Conversation:State By Gabriel Blanchard “L’état, c’est moi,” Louis XIV said: “I am the state.” But what does that mean? From Plato’s Republic right down to modern …
Student Essay: The Mirage of Utopia
Student Essay: The Mirage of Utopia By Sarah Prince Why does man pursue Utopia? There is a part of humanity designed to seek heaven as an ultimate goal, …
