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If God had not filled the air with birds, with clouds, with life, if he had left the space between earth and highest heaven empty, we might never have raised our hearts or imaginations to them. Because the world in all its manifold hierarchies and stratus’s, in every facet, is peopled or filled distinctively with … Continue reading A World for our Hearts and Minds

Annotated Bibliography This serves as partial fulfillment for PHS 611: Classical Logic and Epistemology, taught by Dr. Philippe Yates, Spring 2018 Continue reading Annotated Bibliography for a Presentation on The Two Tables from an Aristotelian Perspective

In some sense, we all need to escape from subjectivity. We all experience different forms of self enclosure and alienation. Whether we fail to make friends as children (or as adults), whether our interior experience fails to harmonize with reality, or reality fails to harmonize with our interior needs, whether we experience rejection personally or … Continue reading Descartes Failed Escape Plan

Wonder (θαυμάζειν) for both Aristotle and for Plato was the beginning of Philosophy (cf. Theaetetus & Metaphysics). This distinctive mark of authentic philosophy serves to: A. Distinguish philosophy from the arts and sciences The arts and sciences begin from need. How can I feed my family or move this rock? The sciences may move on … Continue reading Wonder as the Beginning

Is philosophy just a word game? How can I argue that it is not? What words might I use? Perhaps, only those who have engaged seriously in philosophy can definitively answer this question–only they can confirm or deny whether it entails an authentic engagement with reality. Yet, we might head off a certain misconception which … Continue reading Philosophy or Word Games

Achilles is remembered for his glory; we are remembered because of God’s! Continue reading Glory and Memory, from Pagan to Redemptive

Anne Shirley of Green Gables is a tremendously challenging character for me understand. Her use of words like ‘thrilly’, ‘romantical’, ‘tragical’, her naming of flowers and trees and avenues (‘the lake of shining waters’), her chatter and forgetfulness, all delight and frighten me. One of the difficulties I have is understanding whether or not she … Continue reading Anne with an ‘E’, or a Bridge too Far

Having seen the 1985 Anne of Green Gables mini series, I knew of Matthew Cuthbert’s death. The author, Lucy Maud Montgomery, certainly prepares her readers by way of hints and foreshadowing, so that it is no great surprise. Yet it remains a solemn and sad chapter. It is nearly impossible for readers or for Anne … Continue reading The Eyes of God