In Nichomachean Ethics Aristotle says “Hence the young man is not a fit student of Moral Philosophy, for he has no experience in the actions of life, …”. I must disagree. Proverbs 22:6 says “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. ” The young […]
The simple observation that annual spending on myriad welfare programs exceeds $1 Trillion on behalf of 40 million people ($25,000 per) says something is very, very wrong. A Heritage Foundation report puts it this way: “According to Census figures, the aggregate pre-welfare poverty gap in 2016 was roughly $248 billion. Calculations based on U.S. Department
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Firat, science is the process of explaining observations about the world around us. Call them “facts”. It proceeds by stating hypotheses, which can be confirmed or negated at some level of probability. Many of the facts are inferred from indirect observation. The fact of the existence of the Higgs boson is a fairly recent example.
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From Plato & Aristotle until Machiavelli (1532),political philosophy rested on notions of virtue residing in the rulers and the ruled. Machiavelli changed the paradigm; the primary goal is the preservation of order. Thomas Hobbes, in Leviathin 1571, produced the four parts of the contract theories, which have been evident ever since: a description of the
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1889-1951 Wittgenstein, Ludwig When a small child, who does not yet speak, falls and bumps his little head, there is no doubt as to what the cries and tears mean. That is natural language. It is only later that little one, now a rambunctious little boy comes in from playing, possibly with those familiar tears
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Over the years I have thought about a variety of things. I will attempt to explain a few and invite you to comment. When you see one of these,
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