Tag: Philosophy

• 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