The Great Conversation: Wisdom—Part II
The Great Conversation: Wisdom—Part II By Gabriel Blanchard Having discussed wisdom as a synonym for knowledge, we may shift to wisdom as a form of moral goodness. As …
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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill An Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard Despite coming late in its history, Mill may have been the single most potent shaper of classical Liberal political …
The Great Conversation: Pleasure & Pain—Part III
The Great Conversation: Pleasure & Pain—Part III By Gabriel Blanchard Having considered the surprisingly ascetic philosophy of Epicurus, and the broader implications of the existence of pain, what …
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The Great Conversation: Pleasure & Pain—Part II
The Great Conversation: Pleasure & Pain—Part II By Gabriel Blanchard Having discussed Epicurus, whose “hedonism” was not hedonistic, let us turn to the problem of suffering, which does …
The Great Conversation: Pleasure & Pain
The Great Conversation: Pleasure & Pain—Part I By Gabriel Blanchard Superficially simple, pain and pleasure are strangely intricate realities, and have ties to almost every other area of …
Smith: The Soft Science of Hard Cash
Smith: The Soft Science of Hard Cash By Gabriel Blanchard To many people, capitalism is as essentially American as the stars and stripes—but where did it come from? …
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 …
Student Essay: Hector and Heroism
Student Essay: Hector and Heroism By Eamonn Flynn Achilles is the protagonist of the Iliad, but most readers see Hector as its moral “hero.” Yet is the conventional …
The Great Conversation: Liberty—Part III
The Great Conversation: Liberty—Part III By Gabriel Blanchard Many figures from history write of a “true freedom” they contrast with mere autonomy: a freedom of will, intellect, and …
The Great Conversation: Liberty—Part I
The Great Conversation: Liberty—Part I By Gabriel Blanchard Liberty is among the most complex and controversial topics in the Great Conversation—which is saying a lot! One of the …