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Some Malformed Thoughts on Edwards and True Religion
Apr 20th
In my Church history class I was asked to read A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections by Jonathan Edwards and to give some commentary on it. The below are my first thoughts when I read the text. Incidentally, I have just taught over the Descartes-Locke-Hume-Kant debate over the nature of the self during the Enlightenment period, [...]
Weekend Goals:
Apr 17th
THE LIST:
Prep Sunday School – Attributes of the Kingdom 1.
Teach an Introduction to Kingdom Attributes
Write History Paper – Summary and Critique of Edwards Piece (started, not completed)
Do back Hebrew Assignment
Organize MACC docs (while watching basketball)
Catch up on MACC grading (Tests, Reading Summaries)
Write SFCC lesson for next week (New Religious Movements) [...]
Overheard (Christ’s Travels)
Apr 6th
Christianity was born after the Resurrection in Israel, went to Greece and became a Philosophy, went to Rome and became an institution (and a government), went to the rest of Europe and made it into a culture, and went to America and became a business model.
- Tony Campolo, on not judging Christianity on its current [...]
Radical Surgery Needed
Feb 11th
I need to get packing something fierce, so this is short and malformed.
In my view, postmodern philosophy[1] is primarily seeking out a better way of viewing reality and knowledge[2] than is found in modern philosophy.[3]
Is anything present in postmodernism that unifies it as a movement and isit is just a synonym for “deconstructive relativism,” as [...]
Best Pro-Abortion Article Ever (& I am Anti-Abortion)
Feb 3rd
For my discussions on Friday in my Intro to Philosophy Class I am having my students read A Defense of Abortion by Judith Jarvis Thomson.
It is the best anti-abortion article I have come across so far. I say this for two reasons. First, it comes the closest to convincing me of the pro-abortion position. Second, [...]
Discussion Questions, and an Argument Exercise: Self and Selfishness
Jan 22nd
Because I use this space to think about what I am teaching, among other things, I am going to post the discussion questions I ask my students and the writing exercises I assign them each Friday. My class is intro to philosophy and my students are freshmen from a rural background.[1]
Discussion Questions:
1) What is [...]
Thinking Out Loud
Jan 17th
Religion and Science are just as compatible with one another as Philosophy and Science #
The category "Indigenous religions" describes those religions which have suffered under the yoke of Colonialism. #
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Discovery Questions in Philosophy
Jan 15th
In my Intro class, I asked the students today to answer the following questions. I am keeping their replies until the end of the semester at which point I will have them re-answer them and then compare their answers.
1) Metaphysics: “Is a bale of hay still a bale of hay if you remove one straw? [...]
Thinking Out Loud
Jan 13th
Aristotle, on the origins of Philosophy :: http://bit.ly/6lcePA #
You ever listen to "Enterprising Young Men" while you are trying to get work done? #
Russell defines philosophy as "the space between science and religion" and his work suffers for it. It undergirds and converses with both. #
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Thus was drawn the Übermensch
Jan 3rd
I came across this illustration today whilst thumbing through books for my upcoming philosophy class I’m teaching.
It is from Philosophy for Beginners by Richard Osborne. It is a comic book of Western Philosophy from the early Greeks through Feminism and Post-Structuralism. I don’t have the freedom to assign any books I wish, but I [...]
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