“Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?” Jesus replied: “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.” -Matthew 19:21 It’s always entertaining…
Contrasting Plato and Aristotle
Many people often ask about the differences between the philosophy of Plato and that of Aristotle. Today in America, those with any sort of religious association at all are familiar, either consciously or unconsciously, with St. Augustine and Plato. But…
Defending the Wall: Part One – Article VI
“The only question is where in the Constitution is this non-existent ‘separation of church and state’ to be found?” The standard argument made by Christian Nationalists is that the specific words “separation of church and state” are not located in…
Test of Faith – Thomas Jefferson’s Jesus
“Why all these pains, and what need of sureties? There is a short and easy way to settle the whole business. Let Mr. Jefferson only set his name to the first part of the apostles’ creed. ‘I believe in God,…
Mass Aristocracy vs. Mass Democracy
One of the things that Plato and Aristotle both agreed on is the necessity for the average citizen to be educated. To Aristotle, the leisure time that is acquired by the citizen should be spent to some degree involved with…
The Intellectual Drifter and the Intellectual Swindler
In today’s political debates I see two general approaches people use in political discourse: the intellectual drifter and the intellectual swindler. If truth is to be found, intellectual honesty is a must. Neither of these two approaches achieves this end.
The Death of Liberal Education
The Death of Liberal Education Ask the question, “what is Liberal education?” to students attending the university today, and one will find very few students who could answer this question with any sort of accuracy. One will hear such things…