Nowadays, if a philosopher finds he cannot answer the philosophical question ‘What is time?’ or ‘Is time real?’, he applies for a research grant to work on the problem during next year’s sabbatical. He does not suppose that the arrival of next year is actually in doubt. He insulates his ordinary first order judgments from [...]
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Why Christians Care About Art
Posted in Aesthetics, Censorship, Greek Philosophy, Plato, Politics on August 31, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Our aim is to prevent our guardians bring brought up among images of evil – as it were in a meadow of bad grass where, cropping and grazing in abundance, they little by little and all unawares build up a huge accumulation of evil in their soul. Rather, we must seek craftsmen with a talent [...]
God is Spirit
Posted in Colin Gunton, Greek Philosophy, Language, Ontology, Spirit on August 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
That God is spirit, generally, does not mean simply that his is not material but that he is able to encompass both what we call spirit and what we call matter. To have spirit is to be open to the other – God, the human other and the world; to be spirit, as God is, [...]
Prosperity and Ethics
Posted in Altruism, Aristotle, Bertolt Brecht, Ethics, Greek Philosophy, Jesus, Money, New Testament on August 11, 2009 | 9 Comments »
For the present let this be our fundamental basis: the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently supported by material resources to facilitate participation in the actions that virtue calls for.
– Aristotle, The Politics (tr. T. A. Sinclair), 1323b36 [...]
Wittgenstein on Soul and Body
Posted in Greek Philosophy, Ludwig Wittgenstein, New Testament, Personhood, Soul on July 30, 2009 | 8 Comments »
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations (1953), II.iv
A caricature of the Christian hope paints Christians believing that when they die, their souls turn into angels, and they float off to heaven to play the harp. A caricature of the Christian faith paints Christians believing that the [...]
Is Disagreement in Ethics a Virtue?
Posted in Alasdair MacIntyre, Ethics, Greek Philosophy, The Enlightenment on July 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The most striking feature of contemporary moral utterance is that so much of it is used to express disagreements; and the most striking feature of the debates in which these disagreements are expressed is their interminable character. I do not mean by this just that such debates go on and on and on – although [...]
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