This question isn’t primarily about what caused me to want what I want. That’s a question of self-examination—backward-facing, aimed at the soundness of our reasoning. Instead, when we ask “Am I …
What The Stranger Teaches Us
Our men’s group is reading Albert Camus’s The Stranger. In it, Meursault is condemned to die for murder. He receives the death penalty, but in truth, so have we all. He cannot appeal it. Neither can …
Christian Philosophy: Against Plato
Part 1 Christian philosophers often admire Plato, finding insights in his writings that seem compatible with Christian thought. Some go so far as to say he prepared pagans for the Gospel and that he …
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The Degradation of Original Monotheism: From Polytheism to Naturalism
David Hume and the Naturalistic Origins of Religion David Hume (1711–1776), in his Natural History of Religion (1757), presented a theory about the origins of religious belief that has since become …
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Normative Ethics
The study of ethics arises in relation to the reality of choice. As we make a choice, we are aware that there were other options and ask ourselves if we made the best choice. As we face future choices …
The First Amendment and Natural Religion
The United States was founded on natural religion. The grievances justifying independence rest on the claim that there are some things self-evident about God and human nature and from these come human …
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