The Slavery of the Same
Conor P. Williams praised Michelle Obama’s DNC speech for combating the ugly belief that the president is something other than a real American. “It was a speech that demanded the president’s recognition as one...
Category: Philosophy
Wednesday Philosophical Query #4
My front page post on the vice of lust prompted some discussion on what makes something immoral. A few commenters expressed the view that morality applies only to actions, which, if strictly true, would...
Lustful Thoughts
By which I mean thoughts about lust, of course. My latest is on the front page. Because you write about what you know…
My Postmodern Catholicism
I’ve begun a series at Vox Nova about the postmodern quality of my religious faith. If you scratch your head at my attempt to embrace both postmodern philosophy and orthodox Roman Catholicism, this series...
Wednesday Philosophical Query #3
Today’s proposition comes from Gabriel Marcel: A community is only possible when beings acknowledge that they are mutually different while existing together in their differences. Was he correct? Discuss.
My Secularism, Unraveling
My stance on secularism has just recently evolved. I explain how on the front page.
Wednesday Philosophical Query #2
Questions: Are there objective criteria for determining if and when nascent life becomes a person whose life is worthy of respect? If so or if not, how do we know this? Please discuss. With...
All Thought Begins with Faith
Tom Van Dyke, concerned that the road I’m traveling leads to skepticism and nihilism, asked me to state for the record whether anything is self-evident. I stand by my answer–I’m not sure–but I’d like...
The Trouble with Self-Evident Human Rights: An Example
The Declaration of Independence begins with a bit of bad philosophy: to wit, positing, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator...
Wednesday Philosophical Query
Proposition: One must make an act of faith to think about anything at all. In other words, one must believe in order to understand because all understanding is based on unprovable axioms (e.g., the...
