Critical Thinking
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Trump and Norman Vincent Peale
In my last article, “An Insane Person for President?” I argued that someone completely disassociated from reality was insane, and that defined Trump. I even cited a comment from his niece, Mary Trump, a…
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An Insane Person as President?
Webster defines insane as “exhibiting a severely disordered state of mind,” “unable to think in a clear and sensible way,” or “people having a severely disordered state of mind.” All of those definitions…
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Trump and the Egyptian God Set
In my last article, “One Divine Moment for Republicans and a Magical One for Democrats,” I brought up the attempted assassination of Trump, who claimed had he not moved his head a quarter…
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Free Will vs. Spiritual Determinism
In my last article, linked here, I reviewed an internationally renowned expert on the Western tradition’s philosophical and mystical roots, Peter Kingsley, and his view of the “Spiritual Determinism” embodied in Empedocles’ stories of…
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Empedocles and Spiritual Determinism
When I began writing this series on Peter Kingsley’s view of Empedocles, I thought it would be just one article. Now I am on my fifth article. Each time I think my next…
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Our Lived Life
Should we base our life on abstract ideas, or should our “lived life” dictate those abstract ideas? Off the cuff, many of us say, of course, our lived life should dictate those ideas.…
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Subjective and Objective Knowledge
In our modern scientific era, we don’t pay much attention to “subjective” knowledge; instead we prefer “objective” knowledge. That is knowledge that is fact based and empirically verifiable. If we can’t demonstrate a…
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Natural Law and the Trinity
In my last article I showed the connection between Natural Law and the notion of an Intelligent Universe. In this article I would like to show how Natural Law is also related to…
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Is Something Good Because God Says So?
In Plato’s dialogue, Euthyphro, Socrates asks just this questions: “Do the gods love holiness [the good] because it is holy [good], or is it holy [good] because the gods love it?” The Divine…
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Heading to a Cease-Fire in Ukraine?
There was an interesting article in the opinion section of the New York Times a couple of days ago. It was by Sergey Radchenko, who is an historian of the Cold War. It…
