Some people, despite all proof to the contrary, believe the moon landings were faked. Some people, despite all proof to the contrary, believe the last election was stolen. And those are just two of the many conspiracy theories that […]
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Category: Philosophy
Philosophy in the real world.
Calvinism and the American Conception of Evil
Largely underestimated is the significant influence that John Calvin has had on culture in the United States. Perhaps only John Locke has had more philosophical influence on the American Zeitgeist than has Calvin. To understand America and its uniqueness, you […]
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Frantz Fanon on Being Black
Frantz Fanon on Being Black “I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the cosmos — and the white man, however intelligent he may […]
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Let’s Call Racism What It Is: Structural Cowardice
What is racism? Hatred? Yes. Ignorance? Yes. But the hatred spewed within ignorant racist views are symptoms of a deeper dis-ease. We need to call racism what it really is — something larger than any individual but is an emotion […]
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The Islamic Renaissance’s Influence on Philosophy
Islam had a tremendously positive affect on the Western world in preserving the knowledge of the ancient Greeks. The Islamic world from present-day Uzbekistan in the east, to present-day Spain in the west, had had access to Aristotle going back […]
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UFOs: What If There’s Nothing to Disclose?
The truth is out there, and it lies somewhere between the extremes of skepticism and believe-anythingism. That’s especially the case for the phenomena we call UFOs, or as the military now calls them, UAPs. A clear view of the UFO […]
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Aristotle’s Theory of Change
(Video and text below.) How Objects Change One of the biggest problems that ancient Greek philosophers dealt with was the problem of change. Why and how do objects change? Plato had agreed with a number of Greek philosophers before him […]
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Descartes’ Circular Reasoning? There Is No “Cartesian Circle”
Ever since Descartes published his book Meditations, he has been accused of committing a fallacy of circular reasoning with his argument that God is the guarantor of the truth of our belief in an external world. Descartes’ argument has ever […]
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Why Philosophy Is Best Taught Chronologically
How to best teaching philosophy so students can understand and appreciate its importance. One of the biggest challenges for philosophy professors is reaching students who have little to no background or interest in philosophy. In the US, philosophy is seldom […]
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Did Hitler Know He Was a Bad/Evil Person?
This is a very interesting and profound question that speaks to morality and human nature. As with all good philosophical questions, answering it requires challenging our preconceptions. Did Hitler know that he was bad? Well, do we know he was […]
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