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Basic Philosophy Educated People Should Know: Aristotle’s ‘Four Causes’0
- Philosophy
- August 2, 2017
The ancient philosophers developed a number of tools through which they could understand reality. One of them, from the writings of Aristotle, the student of Plato (who was himself the student of Socrates), is called the “Four Causes.” The term “cause” is a little misleading. These four causes were the way you explained or defined
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Why Kids Today Show Adults So Little Respect 1
- Culture
- August 2, 2017
In a recent article for The Washington Post, author Meredith Hale shares some rather humiliating experiences she recently endured at the hands of her daughter’s 8-year-old friends. The first was being ordered to eat an old, crusty fragment of bagel picked up from the floor. The second was being intentionally slapped in the rear. Hale
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The Moral Imagination of Disney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’0
- Culture
- August 2, 2017
Several nights ago, I reluctantly watched Disney’s 2017 live version of Beauty and the Beast. I must admit three things before I get into the heart of this essay. First, I’ve never been anti-Disney. I know many conservatives think Disney is the end of civilization, but I’ve never seen it that way. Like comic-book superheroes, Disney,
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Why it Was Moral for Trotsky to Kill the Tsar’s Children—But Immoral for Stalin to Kill His 0
- Economics
- August 2, 2017
Few today would disagree that we live in a morally confused age. Most of us have a sense of right and wrong. But if pressed to explain why we believe what we do, I suspect you’d encounter a great many blanks stares and incoherent responses. Much of this is attributable to the rise of emotivism,
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4 Reasons Colonists Rebelled Against Britain (Besides High Taxes)0
- History
- August 1, 2017
Americans today tend to look at the War of Independence in terms of patriotic slogans. “No Taxation without Representation!” “I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.” “Give me liberty or give me death.” “Don’t Tread on Me!” Through this lens, the Revolutionary War was an inevitable conflict brought about
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5 Reasons Marxism Has Nothing to Offer Millennials 0
- Economics
- August 1, 2017
For millennials looking to shake off a dull weekend with a good economics or philosophy book, Marxism is one topic you might want to avoid. Anyone who has taken the time to read either Karl Marx or Friedrich Engels would, hopefully, realize just how lucky they are to live in a relatively free society. But
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