Tag: Meaning
-
A History of the Divine Ideas as Thoughts of God
The Ideas as Thoughts of God The divine ideas have a notorious history in philosophy. They are commonly spoken of as the ‘thoughts of God,’ and utilized in arguments for God’s existence, e.g., Edward Feser’s ‘Augustinian Argument.’ Their history is pretty nuanced, and provides an interesting area for investigation. Prior to the Platonic Successors we…
-
Maximus the Confessor on the Transfiguration
For those who aren’t familiar, the transfiguration (Matthew 17.1-13, Mark 9.2-13, and Luke 9.28-36) is an event recorded in the gospels where Christ, Peter, James, and John go up onto a mountain and Christ is “transfigured.” The event is clearly meant to indicate the divine approval of Christ’s mission on earth. But there seems to be…
-
Navigating the Gender Debate
What follows is a brief guide to current discourse surrounding gender along with the arguments put forth by those who attack a ‘traditional conception.’ I then respond briefly to the arguments. This post shouldn’t be read all at once and then relegated to the trash bin; it can function as a handout to which one…
-
Why Read the Church Fathers?
“Fun” What is the appeal behind spending thirty or more dollars to buy an old book, opening it up to find the language verbose, dense, and placid? And then to sink hours and hours into the text with little to nothing to show for it? Well, when put like that, reading sounds more like torture…
-
Ecclesiastes
(Written Feb. 2020) Writing is the simplest thing in the world. All you do is sit down and bleed. Ernest Hemingway said that, and truer words haven’t been spoken. This piece is my attempt at that. In the face of so much death already occurring in 2020, I have no doubt that all of us…
-
Sigmund Freud on Religion (Part 2)
(Written July 2019) “The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude toward humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life.” – Sigmund Freud In part one of this series,…
-
Analysis: Faust, A Tragedy
(Written June 2019) The magnum opus of Johann Goethe, Faust is a tragedy written in the late 18th century and early 19th century. It is considered to be one of the greatest works of German literature ever written, and after a read through it is no mystery as to why. Goethe pulls from many different…
-
The Unexamined Life
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates One of Socrates’s most famous quotes, he says it during his trial and it appears in Plato’s Apology. Carl Jung also made a similar statement when he said, “Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakes.” But what do these great thinkers mean? Yesterday when I…
The Reluctant Philosopher 