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Reflections on Grief

March 22, 2009by clintperry 1 Comment

Though I have often vicariously experienced the pain of loss through various authors’ lamentations, nothing, however, so teaches like the reality of firsthand loss—when that looming shadow that is cast […]

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Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Theology

On Happiness: Aristotle, Epicurus, and the Stoics

March 17, 2009by clintperry 3 Comments

Etched into the Declaration of Independence is the famous phrase that we are all endowed with inalienable rights, that of life, liberty…. …..and the pursuit of happiness. In particular, the […]

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Philosophy

C.S. Lewis and Aristotle: On Friendship

August 28, 2007by clintperry 1 Comment

In the book Surprised by Joy Lewis tells the following: “Many chapters ago I mentioned a boy who lived near us and who had tried, quite unsuccessfully, to make friends […]

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Philosophy

Part 2: Can Faith and Reason Contradict?

August 20, 2007by clintperry Leave a comment

Thomas Aquinas offers a persuasive argument in Summa Contra Gentiles I, 7: “The truth that the human reason is naturally endowed to know cannot be opposed to the truth of […]

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Philosophy

Part 1: On Faith and Reason

August 4, 2007by clintperry Leave a comment

My roommate and I just had a lively discussion on basically what came down to this question: What is the relationship between faith and reason? This relationship has been something […]

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Philosophy, Theology

Plato’s Theory Of Recollection…

August 2, 2007by clintperry 1 Comment

Currently, I am immersed in reading Dr. John Mark Reynold’s (Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Biola University) unpublished (and heavily unedited) copy of his upcoming book “Athens and Jerusalem: The […]

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Education, Philosophy

Part 1: Learning is Dead

July 4, 2007by clintperry 1 Comment

In a classic Doonesbury cartoon, a rumpled professor holds forth from a lectern while his students dutifully scribble away in their notepads: ” . . . and in my view, […]

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Education, Philosophy

Divine Providence

February 7, 2007by clintperry Leave a comment

The Calvinistic theological model can be understood nicely through the acronym TULIP. (TULIP definitions are from Michael Robinson: The Storms of Providence): T- Total depravity- unregenerate humans (due to sin) […]

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Philosophy, Theology

Loving Wisdom…

February 1, 2007by clintperry Leave a comment

When someone asks, “What is your goal?” this often means the same as “to what is your end?” For example, if someone asked me, “What is your goal this semester […]

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Philosophy

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