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  • What Remains

    What Remains

    It’s easier to define what would ruin a good life than to define one. It’s easier to explain failure modes than to communicate success. It’s easier to know what we would refuse than what we would accept. We know the walls before we know the room. The obvious explanation is that we’re broken. Succumbing to

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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 asked you, “What do you actually mean by that word?”…could you answer? I don’t think most people can and neither could most philosophers, at least not without a fight. The word “true” comes from Old English trēowe,

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    Michael

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

    Evil Proves Good

    Read the latest headlines and it will be impossible to deny that evil is real.Yet evil is never its own thing, but a corruption of what is good. To call something evil is to acknowledge some standard of good.Not preference or taste. A reality that binds us all. So, if evil is real then good

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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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