Philosophy

Is Beauty Really in the Eye of the Beholder?0
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy
- October 6, 2026
When you think of beauty your mind may go to a sunset or landscape, maybe a famous painting or poem. It is less common to associate beauty with medieval Scholastic philosophy, especially that of a celibate priest named Thomas Aquinas. Ancient peoples leading up to the Scholastic period took beauty very seriously, believing that beauty
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The Way Out of Marxist Racial Tension 0
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy, Politics
- October 5, 2026
Literature is timeless. In it we glimpse the past and find a map for the future. It tells the story of mankind, filled with human themes that transcend particulars, still relevant in the here and now. Recently, I read such a book. Alan Paton published “Cry, the Beloved Country” in 1948, right before apartheid was
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Would You Rather Be Just, or Only Seem So?0
- Featured, Philosophy
- September 28, 2026
Scrolling online one night, you see pictures of someone’s weekend trip or even their lunch meal, all arranged for an audience. Essentially, these images drag someone else’s hidden thing into the light. And the life we choose in the light and in the dark depends on the audience – our good deeds want a witness,
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Can God Be Truly Good When There Is Suffering?0
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy, Religion
- September 28, 2026
The “problem of evil,” which asks, “How is God good when there is so much evil in the world?” has long remained one of the most contested questions in philosophy. For many the deeper issue is not that evil exists, but that God, in some way, causes evil. But is this the case? The common
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Neurotheology, a Bridge Between Religion and Science 0
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy, Religion, Science
- September 11, 2026
An emerging field of psychology is recognizing the profound link among religious experience, the brain, and mental health. It’s called “neurotheology,” a multidisciplinary field that studies the relations between religion and the human brain. “Neurotheology is a two-way street so that it is not just neuroscience studying religion or religion commenting on neuroscience,” said Dr. Andrew Newberg, a neuroscientist and pioneer in the field, in an
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Plato’s Cave Was About Us, Not Others 0
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy
- September 11, 2026
Often the analogy of Plato’s Cave is told with the teller standing outside, basking in the sun. Meanwhile, everyone else is left inside, still seeing shadows on the wall. We naturally make a divide: the other country, the other party, the other culture, the other church, the other family – they are always the prisoners.
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