Posted in philosophy, political theory, technology on May 10, 2008 | No Comments »
My penultimate paper for this semester has been completed. It is a meditation on themes in Martin Heidegger’s essay “The Question Concerning Technology” and Hannah Arendt’s book The Human Condition. As it is rather long (7400 words or so), I’ve put it on a separate page. You can get to it by clicking below.
“THAT WHICH [...]
Posted in Faith & Reason, Freedom, Liberty, Politics, economics, government, political theory on April 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The following is a work in progress. This forms the first two pages of my 30-page semester project. It will be added to and expanded as time goes.
INTRODUCTION
As a political movement, libertarianism is of recent origin. It is rooted in the American alternative tradition, and its pioneers were united by their common realization that all [...]
Posted in political theory on April 24, 2008 | No Comments »
The spiritual destiny of man in the Christian sense cannot be represented on earth by the power organization of a political society; it can be represented only by the church. The sphere of power is radically de-divinized; it has become temporal. The double representation of man in society through church and empire lasted through the [...]
Posted in Democracy, Freedom, Liberty, Politics, Rationalism, political theory on March 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My favorite book I’ve read this semester has got to be Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition.
Next up would be Friedrich V. Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty. This is research for a paper, but I’ve really enjoyed it. So far, I have eleven pages of quotes from the book. Here’s a few good ones.
“While the [...]
Posted in Tyranny, literature, political theory on January 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Take but degree away, untune that string,
And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets
In mere oppugnancy: the bounded waters
Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores
And make a sop of all this solid globe:
Strength should be lord of imbecility,
And the rude son should strike his father dead:
Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong,
Between [...]
Posted in Ethics, political theory on November 23, 2007 | No Comments »
The humanitarian denies the existence of sin, declaring that what we call “sins” are not moral matters at all, resulting instead from circumstance, faulty rearing, or social oppression. In the view of the humanitarian, sins–and crimes, too–are the work of “society”; and sinners and criminals are victims, rather than unjust offenders. Such reasoning is the [...]
Posted in Evangelism and Apologetics, Politics, Theology and Discipleship, government, political theory on November 7, 2007 | No Comments »
Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon:Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce. Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they [...]
Posted in Faith & Reason, Theology and Discipleship, philosophy, political theory on October 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I. Introduction
How can the human desire for happiness be reconciled to the reality of suffering in the world? Our best efforts to live a good and pleasant life often seem to be frustrated by fate and hindered by our friends. This is a world of trouble, tragedy, and confusion.
The classical philosophers wanted to construct a [...]
Posted in Current Events, Evangelism and Apologetics, Theology and Discipleship, philosophy, political theory on July 12, 2007 | No Comments »
How excellent are your works, O God!
Your people see them and rejoice,
those who you have called from every nation, from every time;
the poor and the rich, the unknown and the great.
Out of the east you called Abraham,
and made of him a nation, Israel, your holy people;
From slavery in Egypt you delivered them.
You saw the horror [...]
Posted in Democracy, Faith & Reason, philosophy, political theory on June 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110009472
What are libraries for? Are they cultural storehouses that contain the best that has been thought and said? Or are they more like actual stores, responding to whatever fickle taste or Mitch Albom tearjerker is all the rage at this very moment?
If the answer is the latter, then why must we have government-run libraries at [...]
