Philosophy

The 7 Intellectual Virtues: Helpful Tools for Thinking Well 4
- Philosophy
- February 17, 2023
When we think of the words virtue or character, our minds usually go first to actionable morality. We think, for instance, of chivalry (say, a gentleman holding a door for a lady) or altruism (the willingness to give up personal pleasure to help someone else). Philip E. Dow makes a good case, though, for virtue
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Are Your Beliefs Rational? Four Tests to Evaluate Your Worldview 1
- Philosophy
- January 30, 2023
Theologian and philosopher Richard J. Mouw recounts once seeing a car with a Playboy bunny sticker on the rear window and a statue of the Virgin Mary on the front dashboard. He initially assumed that there was a reasonable explanation to the apparent contradiction: a Catholic wife and a brazen spouse, perhaps? Only later did
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Even in Our Age of Ugly, Beauty Will Survive 2
- Culture, Philosophy
- January 24, 2023
“Beauty,” wrote philosopher Roger Scruton, “is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.” Whatever we may think of Scruton’s observation, it seems clear our ideas of beauty are at best confused, at worst degraded, and always subjective. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” is, of course, in
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Truth Is More Than Propositional 3
- Philosophy, Religion
- January 23, 2023
Navigating a world riddled with attacks on gender, goodness, and morality, I’m always encouraged by people who cling to truth. Still, even as we hold to rightly ordered propositions, we have to recognize exactly what truth encompasses because it has profound impacts on our systems of belief and how we communicate. What Is Truth? Many
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How Cultivating An Internal Locus of Control Can Help You Succeed 1
- Philosophy
- January 20, 2023
In the United States today, it’s fashionable to see ourselves as victims. Commentators on the far left will tell you that skin color traps people in poverty and that people cannot determine their own fate. Commentators on the far right will tell you that immigrants are stealing jobs and that there’s nothing we can do
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Why We Should Study Philosophy 1
- Philosophy
- January 16, 2023
When I tell people I’m in school for philosophy, they usually respond with one of two extremes: admiration or ambivalence. Either they give me an impressed look, a shake of the head, and an awed comment like “I could never do that”; or they give me a pair of raised eyebrows, a polite nod, and
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