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Aquinas: On Just War
DAILY DABBLE IN THE CLASSICS, ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the...
Life In Plants and Animals
The Philosophy of Man
A brief introduction to rational psychology
Adapted from various sources and edited
by Jonathan Dolhenty, Ph.D.
Part Two: Life in Plants and Animals
Life as...
The Principle of the Practical Effect
BY JONATHAN DOLHENTY, PH.D.
Pyrrho was a citizen of Elis in ancient Greece, born around 360 B.C. or so and, to the best of our...
The Human Equation in Dialectic
MORTIMER J. ADLER, PH.D.
In the Sophist, Plato separates the philosopher from the sophist, not by any distinction in method, but by the difference in...
The Confusion of the Animalists
BY MORTIMER J. ADLER, PH.D.
A recent book, entitled Apes, Men, and Language, bears the subtitle "How teaching chimpanzees to 'talk' alters man's notions of...
Out Of Small Beginnings
Thanksgiving
During the winter of 1623, the Pilgrims subsisted for a time on a daily ration of five kernels of parched corn. The tradition of...
Controversy in the Life and Teaching of Philosophy
MORTIMER J. ADLER, PH.D.
PART 1
In a little more than twenty years, the honor of delivering the Annual Association Address has been thrice conferred on...
What is Intellectual Insanity?
America's War with Reality, Truth, and Morality
BY JONATHAN DOLHENTY, PH.D.
Ideas have consequences. A philosophy is a set of ideas about basic things like reality,...
Cicero: One Law for All
DAILY DABBLE IN THE CLASSICS, CICERO
In the last years of the Roman Republic, Marcus Tullius Cicero, penned his dialogue De Legibus (On the Laws)....
Have We Lost Our Common Sense?—Dolhenty
BY JONATHAN DOLHENTY, PH.D.
The world is in a desperate state of affairs. Social institutions – the family, schools, and churches – are falling apart....
Does God Exist?—A Contemporary Philosophical Argument
BY JONATHAN DOLHENTY, PH.D.
The argument over the existence of God has raged for centuries. Theists and atheists have continually debated the possibility of even...
Isaac Watts: Logic
Western Thought
In 1724 Isaac Watts publishes the standard treatise on the study of Logic. In the introduction he defines the purpose and organization of...
Jim Bludso, of the Prairie Queen
Jim Bludso,
Of the Prairie Belle.
(Pike County Ballads.)
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WALL, no! I can’t tell whar he lives,
Because he don’t live, you see:
Leastways, he’s got out of...
Philosophy’s Future
BY MORTIMER J. ADLER, PH.D.
There is little point in asking whether philosophy has a future, for that question hardly admits of a negative answer. The...
The Nature of Ideas
THE PROBLEM OF KNOWLEDGE
A Brief Introduction to Epistemology
By Jonathan Dolhenty, Ph.D.
PART V: THE NATURE OF IDEAS: FORMATION OF IDEAS, IDEA AND SENSE IMAGE
Ideas are...
The Morality of Love – How to Think About Love, Part 4
Max Weismann interviews Mortimer Adler
Part 4: The Morality of Love
Weismann: Now I would like us to move on to our last topic and consider...
What is Philosophical Realism?
BY JONATHAN DOLHENTY, PH.D.
Philosophy is the attempt to understand the most basic facts about the world we inhabit and so far as possible to...
How to Think About Love: Part 3 – Sexual Love
MAX WEISMAN INTERVIEWS MORTIMER ADLER
Part 3: Sexual Love
Weismann: But we also know that friendly love exists in the real world where it is often...
How to Think About Love: Part 2 – Love As Friendship
MAX WEISMAN INTERVIEWS MORTIMER ADLER
Part 2: Love as Friendship
Weismann: I would like now to develop a fuller understanding of this kind of love: love...
An Introduction to the Doctrines of Thomas Aquinas
The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas: A Beginners Course, by Jonathan Dolhenty, Ph.D.
Part III, An Introduction to His Doctrines
Thomas Aquinas was the first to...