The Great Conversation: Authority—Part V
The Great Conversation: Authortity—Part V By Gabriel Blanchard The authority of the scholar contains certain ironies that may not show at a glance … This post is Part …
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Kant: The Evening Star of the Enlightenment
Kant: The Evening Star of the Enlightenment By Gabriel Blanchard We find ourselves to be in a modern world; whose fault is it? The traditional and perhaps best …
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 …
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: Idea—Part II
The Great Conversation: Idea—Part II By Gabriel Blanchard The pendulum of Western thought continues to swing between Plato and Aristotle, yet from radically different pivots … Go here …
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: Opinion
The Great Conversation: Opinion By Matt McKeown Opinion sounds like an easy thing to understand, but it ramifies quickly … Opinion is one of the oldest topics in …
The Great Conversation: Memory and Imagination
The Great Conversation: Memory and Imagination By Matt McKeown Considering that we use them every time we think, it can be surprisingly difficult to explain what we mean …