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  • What Remains

    What Remains

    It’s easier to inventory what would ruin a good life than to define one. It’s easier to catalog failure modes than to articulate success. It’s easier to know what we’d refuse than what we’d accept. We know the walls before we know the room. Some might say the obvious explanation is that we’re broken. Negativity

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    Michael

    Philosophy
    agency, Aquinas, conjunctions, disjunctions, emergence, ethics, Michelangelo, negative theology, subtraction, via negativa, wisdom
  • What Do You Mean By True?

    What Do You Mean By True?

    We use the word constantly. That’s not true. Is that true? Tell me the truth. But if someone stopped you mid sentence and asked, “What do you actually mean by that word?”…could you answer? Most people can’t. And neither could most philosophers, at least not without a fight. The word “true” comes from Old English

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    Michael

    Culture, Philosophy
    epistemology, etymology, language, meaning, Nietzsche, Philosophy, pragmatism, truth, William James
  • Evil Proves Good

    Evil Proves Good

    The headlines make it impossible to deny that evil is real.Yet evil is never its own thing. It is only a corruption of what is good. To call something evil is to acknowledge a standard of good.Not preference. Not taste. A reality that binds us all. If evil is real, then good is more than

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    Michael

    Culture, Philosophy
    character, christianity, ethics, evil, good, moral standards, morality, natural law, objective truth, Philosophy, religion, virtue
  • Conservatism as Scientific Method

    Conservatism as Scientific Method

    What if conservatism isn’t an ideology but just the application of scientific thinking to social systems?

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    Michael

    Culture, Philosophy, Politics
    conservatism, history, Philosophy, religion, science, scientific method, tradition
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