Losing Your Mind in Art
Plato’s Ion contains an unforgettable image describing artistic experience. In conversation with a rhapsode named Ion, Socrates likens the activity of poets to the operation of a…
Plato’s Ion contains an unforgettable image describing artistic experience. In conversation with a rhapsode named Ion, Socrates likens the activity of poets to the operation of a…
In the history of philosophy, what is the permanent achievement of the Pre-Socratics? Did they attain anything in thought that we can rightly credit to them? Or…
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But let us ever praise him, and extol His bounty, following our delightful task To prune these growing Plants, and tend these Flow’rs, Which were it toilsome,…
Why is a sentence from C.S. Lewis delightful while an equally true statement by another, ordinary writer, is not? “I believe in Christianity as I believe the…
“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.” – Aldo…
The history of Western philosophy may be but a footnote on Plato, but the history of the whole of Western philosophy, theology, politics, science, art, and the…
Bruce Springsteen’s recent intimate gig, Springsteen On Broadway, digs deep into the life and lines of The Boss. As I followed along, one of the key themes…
The Limits of Politics: Making the Case for Literature in Political Analysis. Kyle Scott. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2016. The interrelationship between the social sciences and the…
It is a new old book. China’s Quest for Liberty: A Personal History of Freedom was due to be out five years ago. Without the help of…
It is not difficult to find reasons to justify a phenomenological approach to the events narrated in the Gospels. The Greek etymology of the word phenomenon –…
Analytic philosophy is by the far the dominant tradition in the English-speaking world and many countries in Europe at this point, with a handful of “continental” schools,…
No matter which class I am teaching, for quite some time the first reading assigned has been an article on Goedel’s Theorem. The reason is to emphasize…
Naturalism, physicalism, and materialism are synonyms. They are names for a truncated metaphysics that omits any notion of transcendence and divinity. Someone might try to take dualism…