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Social Justice is not Socialist Justice
Social Justice is not Socialist Justice Dr. Kelly Burton All humans are born with a sense of justice. In justice, equals are to be treated equally. Human beings are equally rational animals. We are equal as human beings. Yet we are different in so many other ways. We have different gender preferences, races…
Read MoreWe Need A Foundation
We Need A Foundation About the Author Owen Anderson is a professor of philosophy and religious studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of eight books including The Declaration of Independence and God with Cambridge University Press. The Declaration of Independence as Foundation We did not get the…
Read MoreSkepticism In The Postmodern Academy
Skepticism in the Postmodern Academy Greg Goodrich The Virtue of Postmodernism Current divisions within American culture emphasize ongoing racial and political tensions. These tensions can be quite discouraging, but there is reason to hope. These tensions are merely symptoms of more basic disagreements about what is real and good. If the knowledge sufficient to…
Read MoreOn The Virtue Of Thinking You’re Right
On the Virtue of Thinking You’re Right Gregory Malloy It does not seem too far of a stretch to say that the cardinal sin of our day is epistemological confidence. To believe that one is correct in his beliefs and others are wrong is cited as the root of many evils including bigotry, intolerance,…
Read MoreWhat Went Wrong?: An Attempt at Critically Analyzing the Intellectual Roots of the Modern Epistemic Crisis
Arturo Gastelum It is part of our existential condition to seek to comprehend the meaning of our existence and the world around us. To determine whether our individual and collective lives are amounting to a contribution to the welfare of the world, it is important to know whether one is positively contributing to the…
Read MoreProgressivism as Religion
Dr. Kelly Burton In an effort to understand the times, I have been spending my semester break reading through a stack of recent books on contemporary cultural concerns often going by the terms Critical Theory, Social Justice, or Progressivism. I favor using the term Progressivism because it captures the Marxist view of the progress…
Read MoreIntegrity – Personal and Electoral
Integrity is a concern for consistency. Yet Emerson famously wrote in Self-Reliance, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.” Emerson is thinking of consistency and conformity. He is advocating for a kind of self-expression or self-creation where one’s individuality is defined in contrast to the group. As…
Read MorePhilosophy as a Comforter
By Greg Goodrich Beliefs divide us. At first this may sound like a call to set beliefs aside, but it’s quite the opposite. Beliefs can and should unite us. Our beliefs will either unite our being in the focused pursuit of a meaningful life, or they will divide us until there is nothing left; nothing…
Read MoreThe Death of Ivan Illych and Christmas
I’m reading through “The Death of Ivan Illych” by Tolstoy and this seems like a perfect Christmas story. Just as with Scrooge, we are given a look at the hardness of the human heart and what suffering it takes to repent. Sometimes philosophers discuss what they call the hiddenness of God. This takes seriously the…
Read MoreWhat is General Revelation?
General revelation is what can be known about God and the moral law by all persons at all times. It is what is available to humans through creation and history. The light of nature is used to understand both general revelation and special revelation (scripture). Reason is called the light of nature because it…
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