Talking Politics
June 8, 2021
Ok, so not much posting over the last weekend, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t things I’m knocking around in my head. Last week I
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The Gospel
June 3, 2021
Had an interesting turn of conversation yesterday. One of the senior attorneys came in, and since he is conservative too (in an office space that
Hume’s Enquiry into Human Understanding
June 2, 2021
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
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-
Praise and the Holy Spirit
May 31, 2021
Yesterday at church, our pastor said- want to be filled with the Holy Spirit? Learn to praise the Lord. This is something I have to
Deep? or Just Incomprehensible?
May 30, 2021
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
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
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
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
Courage and Anxiety
May 26, 2021
I have tried over the past two years to keep in touch with my two sons ever couple of weeks. For my youngest son, who
