Smith: An Author Profile
SmithAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard To many people, capitalism is as essentially American as the stars and stripes—but where did it come from? We’ve all heard of […]
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Kant: An Author Profile
KantAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard We find ourselves to be in a modern world; whose fault is it? The traditional and perhaps best answer here is “Hegel,”
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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
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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
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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
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The Great Conversation: Duty
The Great Conversation: Duty By Matt McKeown Duty is one of the oldest topics in western philosophy and literature. Even before the discussions of it that we find
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The Great Conversation: Love—Part IV
The Great Conversation:Love—Part IV By Matt McKeown Agapē, or charity, is by most accounts the highest of the four loves; and it is a challenging height. Go here
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The Great Conversation: Love—Part II
The Great Conversation:Love—Part II By Matt McKeown Friendship is a neglected subject in our day, in strange contrast to earlier centuries. Go here for Part I, “affection” (στοργή
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Student Essay: Liberation
Student Essay: Liberation By Jozef MacKinnon “Give me liberty or give me death!” Such were the words of Patrick Henry at the Virginia Convention on March 23, 1775,
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The Great Conversation: Love—Part I
The Great Conversation:Love—Part I By Gabriel Blanchard Love is one of the richest and most varied topics of the Great Conversation. It has long been conventional in western
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