Philosophy

The Simple Reason Why Liberals and Conservatives Don’t Understand Each Other 0
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy, Politics
- November 4, 2026
American partisanship is never more evident than during election season. As mutual mistrust and contempt grow on both sides, year after year, we must ask ourselves why. Why are American liberals and conservatives seemingly unable – or at least unwilling – to understand each other? Relying heavily on caricatures of their opponents, conservatives view liberals
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Voting With Christian Solidarity This Election Season 0
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy, Politics, Religion
- November 2, 2026
With Election Day approaching, it is worth exploring essential principles that everyone must consider when casting their vote. Solidarity is one such principle. Many assume in theory that humans owe support to each other simply due to shared humanity. While it is difficult to practice this ideal, the sense of solidarity still exists among us.
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Where Does Knowledge Come From?0
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy
- October 27, 2026
“All men by nature desire to know.” These words begin Aristotle’s “Metaphysics,” one of the most influential books in the history of philosophy, and describe something essential about our human nature. Our minds desire to know because we need to survive, and knowledge does play a role in survival, but our minds also desire to
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Every ‘Ought’ Is Derived From an ‘Is’0
- Featured, Philosophy
- October 20, 2026
One question that always baffled me in the history of ethics was the rejection of inherent final cause or purpose, also known as teleology. If you have a long and productive discussion with anyone about a disagreement in ethics, it will likely boil down to this principle. Historically, humans took for granted the premise that
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Why You Need Philosophy to Do Science 0
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy, Science
- October 13, 2026
It is still an unfortunate assumption that science has usurped philosophy as a discipline, leaving the latter with no real consequence in the world. Even those who pay some respect to philosophy often consider it as knowledge existing in the purely subjective realm, while physical sciences (biology, chemistry, etc.) are what make real changes in
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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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