Reflections on Grief
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 […]
Category Archives: Philosophy
On Happiness: Aristotle, Epicurus, and the Stoics
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 […]
C.S. Lewis and Aristotle: On Friendship
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 […]
Part 2: Can Faith and Reason Contradict?
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 […]
Part 1: On Faith and Reason
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 […]
Plato’s Theory Of Recollection…
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 John Mark Reynold’s (Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Biola University) unpublished (and heavily unedited) copy of his upcoming book “Athens and Jerusalem: The […]
Part 1: Learning is Dead
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, […]
Divine Providence
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) […]
Loving Wisdom…
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 […]
