Month: March 2018
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Moral Theory and Moral Life
by Daniel A. Kaufman ___ A venerable strategy in arguing against theism involves the observation that the world looks exactly as you’d expect it to, if there is no God and not at all like it should if there is one. I want to say the same thing here about moral life and traditional moral […]
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Course Notes — Blaise Pascal, “The Wager”
by Daniel A. Kaufman https://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/pascal_wager.pdf The students in my Introduction to Philosophy course just took their second exam, which covers material from Montaigne, Pascal, and Descartes. From Montaigne we read two essays, “Of Pedantry” and “Of the Education of Children,” and from Descartes, we read the Meditations on First Philosophy. Both have been a regular […]
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See Something? Don’t Say Anything.
by Daniel Tippens The children, on the other hand, were systematically turned against their parents and taught to spy on them and report their deviations. The family had become in effect an extension of the Thought Police. It was a device by means of which everyone could be surrounded night and day by informers who […]
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The Liberal Consensus and the Orthodox Mind
by Daniel A. Kaufman ____ A rather bizarre dialogue over at Blogging Heads has induced me to pull together a number of thoughts I’ve been having lately with respect to the liberal consensus. In the dialogue, Aryeh Cohen-Wade and Edmund Waldstein, a Cistercian monk, discussed the infamous Mortara case – in which a young Jewish […]
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Michelangelo, Humanism, and Christianity
My dialogue with Crispin Sartwell of Dickinson College on Michelangelo, Humanism, and Christianity. Originally aired on the Sophia program, MeaningofLife.TV, March 1, 2018. https://youtu.be/M9iNU8V5MSA Notes Crispin’s essay on Splicetoday: https://www.splicetoday.com/writing/why-they-suck-how-michelangelo-made-the-reformation-necessary