Category: Philosophy

• 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…

  Michael

  Philosophy

  agency, Aquinas, conjunctions, disjunctions, emergence, ethics, Michelangelo, negative theology, subtraction, via negativa, wisdom

• 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,…

  Michael

  Culture, Philosophy

  epistemology, etymology, language, meaning, Nietzsche, Philosophy, pragmatism, truth, William James

• 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…

  Michael

  Culture, Philosophy

  character, christianity, ethics, evil, good, moral standards, morality, natural law, objective truth, Philosophy, religion, virtue

• Conservatism as Scientific Method

  

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

  Michael

  Culture, Philosophy, Politics

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