Student Essay: A Comparison of Plato’s and Aristotle’s Views of Eudaimonia
Plato and Aristotle, though agreeing on many points, have radically dissimilar understandings of “eudaimonia” (happiness). How do they inform one another?
Great Ideas
The Great Conversation: Monarchy
Kings and emperors remain staples of our art and media, but the history and philosophy of monarchy is more complex than we often realize.
The Great Conversation: Language
“The medium is the message,” Marshall McLuhan wrote, and when the Great Conversation touches on language, it’s hard to argue with him.
The Great Conversation: Induction
Though often given second place beside deductive logic, induction is a powerful and surprisingly subtle instrument in the pursuit of knowledge.
The Great Conversation: Happiness
What is happiness? Is virtue necessary for happiness, or are they in competition with each other? Is happiness under our control or beyond it?
Student Essay: Aristotelian and Biblical Friendship
Is Aristotle’s idea of friendship and its virtues in harmony with Biblical depictions of friendship, or in conflict with them? Tabitha Jacobs explains.
Defending Our Students From Propaganda
The only defense against the worst is a knowledge of the best. By their ignorance people enfranchise their exploiters. —Wendell Berry
The Great Conversation: God
Religios studies concern how human beings think and behave; theology concerns the thing they think and act “about.” They differ as eyes and light differ.
The Great Conversation: Element
Nature that fram’d us of four elements, / Warring within our breast for regiment, / Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds: / Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend / The wondrous architecture of the world …
The Great Conversation: Citizen
The relation between citizenship and legal rights, sex, ethnicity, religion, economic class, and a host of other things has a complicated history.
