The Great Conversation Life & Death—Part I By Gabriel Blanchard People and societies differ drastically in countless ways, but one of the few true human universals is death. […]
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The Great Conversation:Sign & Symbol—Part III By Gabriel Blanchard There is one symbol that has, perhaps, wielded more influence and caused more strife than any other in Western
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The Great Conversation:Sign & Symbol—Part II By Gabriel Blanchard We now turn from signs in general to that special class of signs we call symbols. Go here for
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The Great Conversation:Sign & Symbol—Part I By Gabriel Blanchard Though they may sound mysterious, signs and symbols are some of the most ubiquitous elements of our lives. Sign-ificance
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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 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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