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Keith E. BuhlerPhilosophyLiberal Arts

Is Beauty Objective?

If you are like most people alive today, you believe 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder.' This is exactly what I was taught and grew up

Matthew Lee AndersonPhilosophy

First Draft: Introduction to the Trial and Death of Socrates

My wife and I will be working for Wheatstone Academy this summer, a summer program designed to help students discover the riches of the Christian mind. To help in that

Matthew Lee AndersonPhilosophyScience

Sanitizing Darwin

Jesus was no stranger to controversial or confusing claims:  "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace on the earth.  I did not bring come to bring

Matthew Lee AndersonPhilosophy

Who is the Greatest Philosopher of All Time?

Well, BBC listeners chose, surprisingly, Karl Marx by an overwhelming majority. The next three in the runnings also exercised great influence for what most would call evil: David Hume, Ludwig

Matthew Lee AndersonPhilosophyScience

The State of Intelligent Design according to Phillip Johnson

Phillip Johnson explicates the state of the intelligent design movement in biology on the Discovery Institute website.  It's worth reading.  From the end: The goal of the Intelligent

Elliot RavenwoodBiblePhilosophy

Zeus vs. "The One", or Why We Should Lay Off the Neoplatonic Whipping Boy

My wife and I have recently been having a long-running dialog on the nature and application of prayer. So it was with great interest that I read Lauren Winner&

Matthew Lee AndersonPoliticsPhilosophy

The Politics of Happiness: Britian and the "Department of Happiness"

From the Christian Science Monitor comes this report that "subjective well being" is quickly becoming the measuring rod for British policy.  Of course, that's just a

Matthew Lee AndersonPoliticsPhilosophy

Build a Bigger Tent: The Pro-Life Agenda and Death

The following essay is my submission to the Blogs4Life Online Symposium. It is perhaps unconventional in tone for a Symposium of this sort. It is certainly "off the point&

Matthew Lee AndersonPhilosophy

Taking the Bait, or Why Going to Sleep is a Good Idea: Updated

Lesson: taunting other bloggers who are (a) more creative, (b) have a far-reaching audience, and (c) have read more philosophy than I've forgotten is never a good

Keith E. BuhlerAnthropologyPhilosophyembodimentLiberal ArtsTheology and Practice

Responsibility

A friend of mine once remarked that a certain paster at the Anaheim Vineyard is a very "responsible" man. I agreed, and thought nothing of it at the

Matthew Lee AndersonPhilosophy

Logic: An Encomium

I came across this encomium to logic and thought it was very worthy of a post: Logic is very beneficial because it frees our minds from faulty reasoning. It is

Matthew Lee AndersonEducationPhilosophyLiteratureEpistemology

Thoughts on Theaetetus: Volume III

The relationship between teacher and student can take many forms. Modern educational approaches value the teacher insofar as he imparts information to the pupil. But traditional education is more akin