Philosophy

What if Women Had Voted on Women’s Suffrage?0
- Philosophy
- April 23, 2018
G.K. Chesterton’s What’s Wrong with the World contains a section of feminism. By way of providing an accurate preview of what’s to come, he titled it “Feminism, Or the Mistake about Woman.” Yes, G. K. Chesterton had his differences with the feminist movement, then in its infancy. Chief among his differences was the mistaken view
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Utopia is a Dangerous Ideal: We Should Aim for ‘Protopia’1
- Philosophy
- March 14, 2018
Utopias are idealised visions of a perfect society. Utopianisms are those ideas put into practice. This is where the trouble begins. Thomas More coined the neologism utopia for his 1516 work that launched the modern genre for a good reason. The word means ‘no place’ because when imperfect humans attempt perfectibility – personal, political, economic
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Famous Atheist Wonders: Could We Become Cannibals in the Future?0
- Philosophy
- March 9, 2018
If made more palatable, could cannibalism become a thing in the future? The world’s most famous atheist, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, raised this question in a tweet earlier this week. Dawkins’ tweet was prompted by an article in The Independent which reported that “clean meat”— meat from livestock grown in a laboratory via stem cells—could
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Why Thoughts and Prayers are Better than Righteous Anger 0
- Philosophy
- February 26, 2018
It is fashionable to “prayer shame” those who offer “thoughts and prayers” as a response to violence. Public response to the gun violence at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is an example. If you did not deliver an angry diatribe against gun ownership, your failure to fall in line with the politically correct position is
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Chesterton on the Dangers of ‘Cloudy Political Cowardice’0
- Philosophy
- February 14, 2018
If G. K. Chesterton were around to account for what’s wrong with our world today, he’d likely list political correctness high among our current ills. The term itself would not have been familiar to him, but the phenomenon was. He detected in the atmosphere of his era a “cloudy political cowardice.” Instead of telling others
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Over-Optimistic People Aren’t Just Annoying… They’re Also Illogical 0
- Philosophy
- February 5, 2018
Do you know people like this? If someone offers a critique of the local sports team, they’ll predictably jump in to say that the team is fine and there’s nothing to worry about. If someone expresses frustration with another person, they’ll see it as their duty to speak glowingly of that person and his good
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