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Tests of Truth in Philosophy – Mortimer J. Adler
BY MORTIMER J. ADLER, PH.D.
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The definition of truth as the correspondence of the mind with reality presupposes philosophical realism. Idealists denying a reality independent...
What is Intellectual Insanity? — Jonathan Dolhenty
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,...
Sorry, Congress. Facebook Can’t Fix Stupid
BY BOB BARR
In the not too distant past, most adults realized that not everything one saw on the internet or on social media was...
Self-Evidency and Ethics
by Mortimer J. Adler, Ph.D.
For a truth to be self-evident it must be beyond the shadow of a doubt. It must be undeniable simply...
Millennial Becomes Unhinged After Boss Corrects Her Spelling of “Hamster”
BY SELWYN DUKE
Being simultaneously comical and tragic, perhaps nothing reflects our descent into Idiocracy more than millennials who’ll insist their misspellings of words are...
Augustine: Searching for Truth and Wisdom
BY LAWRENCE W. REED
To write about a man known chiefly as a theologian — a bishop in the early Catholic Church, no less —...
Religion & Morality Sustain Freedom
LIBERTY LETTERS WITH STEVE FARRELL
Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. (1)
“Stand therefore in the Liberty wherewith Christ hath...
Religion & Morality Sustain Freedom
LIBERTY LETTERS WITH STEVE FARRELL
Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. (1)
“Stand therefore in the Liberty wherewith Christ hath...
Truth, Descriptive and Prescriptive
BY MORTIMER J. ADLER, PH.D.
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One cannot be both a liar and a skeptic (and, of course, it is preferable to be neither). The liar...
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,...
The Special Treatment Homosexuals Demand
BY SELWYN DUKE
There is one particular thing that illustrates better than anything else the unreasonableness — and some would say gall — of...
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....
Truth and Right Invariably the Same—John Adams
THEY WERE BELIEVERS, JOHN ADAMS
Nature and truth, or rather truth and right are invariably the same in all times and in all places; and...
So What if Cliven Bundy is a “Racist”?
BY SELWYN DUKE
For the record, I don’t believe Cliven Bundy is a “racist.”
For the record, I don’t even care.
Such indifference to that damnable failing,...
Theory of Knowledge (Epistemology) of Thomas Aquinas
The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas Made Simple, by Jonathan Dolhenty, Ph.D.
Part IV, Epistemology of Thomas Aquinas
To explain the process of knowledge, Thomas Aquinas...
GOD AND LIBERTY: A libertarian challenge to secular liberalism
BY PHILIP VANDER ELST
When Benjamin Franklin introduced his grandson to Voltaire shortly before the latter’s death in 1778, that great opponent of the Catholic...
Part 3: The Nature of Knowledge: The Problem of Knowledge, Universal Skepticism, A Realistic Theory of Knowledge
By Jonathan Dolhenty, Ph.D.
THE PROBLEM OF KNOWLEDGE
A Brief Introduction to Epistemology
THE NATURE OF KNOWLEDGE (Con't)
The Problem of Knowledge
The ordinary person does not question that...
A Rebirth of Liberty
Individual Liberty in the Crucible of History, Part 6
CLARENCE B. CARSON, IDEAS ON LIBERTY
But Surely, I will be told, even if a rebirth of...
The Nature of Knowledge: Convictions Based on Sense Perception, Convictions Based on Our Intellect, Different Classes of Truths
THE PROBLEM OF KNOWLEDGE
A Brief Introduction to Epistemology
by Jonathan Dolhenty, Ph.D.
PART TWO
Convictions Based on Sense Perception
Convictions...
Why Obama Is Uneducated
BY SELWYN DUKE
A few years ago I participated in a radio debate on “white privilege” with a certain man, whose name is unimportant,...