The Great Conversation: Chance
The Great Conversation: Chance By Gabriel Blanchard Chance is one of those strange ideas that seems quite natural as long as you aren’t thinking about it. The general […]
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Hegel: An Author Profile
HegelAn Author Profile By Matt McKeown Though his philosophy seems to be the airiest and most abstract of any thinker, we grapple with the consequences of Hegel’s ideas
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The Centrality of Epistemology
Student Essay: The Centrality of Epistemology By Jeshua Grose How we know what we know governs everything else we think, and thus, our lives. Education guides our worldview,
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The Great Conversation: Prudence
The Great Conversation Prudence By Gabriel Blanchard Prudence, as C. S. Lewis put it, is “practical common sense”; but that hardly constitutes material for philosophy. Does it? At
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The Great Conversation: Labor
The Great Conversation: Labor By Gabriel Blanchard We know Labor Day as a popular holiday, but what exactly is it celebrating? Labor—or as we more often call it,
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Rawls: An Author Profile
RawlsAn Author Profile By Matt McKeown One of our first childhood lessons is “Life isn’t fair.” But what if it could be? ❧ Full name: John Bordley Rawls
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The Great Conversation: Judgment
The Great Conversation: Judgment By Matt McKeown From religion to philosophy to civics to private life, judgment is a recurring necessity. Despite its Anglo-Saxon-sounding consonants, the word judge
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Husserl: An Author Profile
HusserlAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard Few schools of thought have proven as fruitful or varied as phenomenology. ❧ Full name and titles: Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl [ĕd-münd
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Student Essay: Christian Versus Platonic Salvation
Student Essay: Christian Versus Platonic Salvation By Jacqueline Marriott Do these two great traditions hold compatible ideas about human nature? In the time of Plato, a man who
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The Great Conversation: Game
The Great Conversation: Game By Gabriel Blanchard What is something so unimportant doing on our list of great ideas? Though not present on Mortimer Adler’s list of great
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