Archives of Kyle Cupp
Can we please, please cease and desist using the word post-modern to describe falsehood-devoted political campaigning? Broadly speaking, post-modern delineates an outlook that see truth as situated, not as immaterial. ‘Tis not the postmodernist...
Eban Alexander has journeyed to heaven and returned to tell the tale. In addition to writing an upcoming book, he chose to publish his private revelation in the pages of Newsweek. He’s a neurosurgeon,...
Romney started a meme with his factually questionable “Show me the women” answer to yesterday’s debate question about equal pay for men and women, but I cringed more at Obama’s poorly stated response. The...
After graduation, I landed a job teaching English to middle school and high school students at a private college preparatory school. It didn’t pay particularly well, but it did provide me with valuable experience...
Proposition: There are knowable absolute moral truths that exist independently of the mind. If true, can they be known absolutely? If not, how does one know they are absolute? If false, is moral relativism...
Howard Gardner has it that traditional morality, which he defines as the “goods” and “bads” outlined in the Ten Commandments or the Golden Rule, provide little if any guidance in contemporary situations. We all...
Decades after the sexual revolution, many religious conservatives remain fiercely committed to preaching, if not always living, an absolute and absolutist understanding of human sexuality. Mainstream biologists, psychologists and sociologists, building on the science...
From Simone de Beauvoir’s The Ethics of Ambiguity: It must not be forgotten that there is a concrete bond between freedom and existence; to will man free is to will there to be being,...
Today’s proposition courtesy of the eternally-recurring(ly)-misinterpreted Friedrich Nietzsche: “But everything has become: there are no eternal facts, just as there are no absolute truths. Consequently what is needed from now on is historical philosophizing,...
Critics of the pro-life position will at times point to the seeming inconsistency of pro-lifers who support laws to prohibit abortion while opposing policies that would help create conditions beneficial to mothers and their...
