Category: Philosophy

God, Marriage and Love

October 29, 2021 No Comments

So I had a few threads of thoughts come together around the topic of how we (in the west) think about God and Love. The

The Purpose of Revelation through Creation

September 3, 2021 No Comments

Pascal writes his thoughts on what exactly the creation- the world around us- is meant to reveal about God. I’ve done my best to take

Pascal’s Wager

September 1, 2021 No Comments

Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, philosopher and Catholic theologian, who lived from 1623-1662. He is famous for what became known as Pascal’s wager-

Hume’s Enquiry into Human Understanding

June 2, 2021 No Comments

Experience and Inference Hume sees two classes of perception: thoughts and impressions. Impressions are the stronger perceptions we get firsthand as we experience the world. Thoughts

Are All Ideas Derived from Nature?

May 31, 2021 No Comments

Reading David Hume’s Enquiry into Human Understanding. His first chapter of the Enquiry is of the Origin of Ideas. He separates thoughts into two categories-

Deep? or Just Incomprehensible?

May 30, 2021 No Comments

I have been reading a lot of philosophy in the Harvard Classics series. I used to assume that if I didn’t understand some densely written

How the Trick was Done

May 29, 2021 No Comments

Berkeley’s Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonus George Berkeley was a proponent of what came to be known as subjective idealism, a theory that denied

Growing Admiration for Locke

May 27, 2021 No Comments

OK, I’m going to admit I’ve been pretty impressed with John Locke so far in his treatise On Education. Most philosophers I’ve read take a

Interaction with Kids

May 26, 2021 No Comments

John Locke, in his essay On Education, talks about the English custom (at around 1700) of doting on children when young, and then becoming progressively