Category: Philosophy
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The Point of Philosophy: An Orthodox Perspective
An interesting narrative I heard recently was that “some time around the fifteenth century, philosophy shifted from studying the True, the Good, and the Beautiful to justifying the skeptic.” I find this idea interesting because there’s a couple of clues that lead to insights that are helpful to understand. For starters, the phrasing “philosophy shifted”…
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Christians Need Useless Boxes
I’ve fallen victim to spending countless hours trying to answer stupid questions or answer the unanswerable. I believed it was my duty as a person to carefully evaluate every statement thrown my way and carefully analyze it to discern whether I should throw it away or accept it. I think this is a common habit.…
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On Hidden Spiritual Propositions
The modern-day philosophical landscape is confused. One of its largest issues is that of treating sentences as isolated bits of information. This conversation leads into multiple paths, but for now I want to focus on hidden spiritual propositions couched in ordinary statements. To further expand upon my first paragraph, I mean to say that people…
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Christian Closed Mindedness
Having to parse through every bit of information flung at us is too great a burden. For some odd reason, I find that Christians in specific are expected to entertain and to listen to every view, granting each and every statement the same legitimacy and validity. We are not allowed to discard information, because if…