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An Example Of Reconciliation Of Plato With Christianity
Boethius in the sixth century A.D. and Thomas Aquinas 500 years later, devoted their lives to the reconciliation of Platonic Philosophy with Christianity. One can see in this presentation reason why they both believed that Plato, at an earlier time, was teaching much of the same message that Christianity brought forth later.
Ingratitude
September 1, 2012
The Roman Statesman and Philosopher Lucius Anneaus Seneca believed that ingratitude should be a crime dealt with and punished by the State. Although most all today would disagree that the former should be the case, most today would agree that we live in a time where ingratitude is certainly rampant. Seneca in his book on […]
SOMETHING TO CONSIDER
April 12, 2012
Professor Andrew Stark of the University of Toronto quotes the Greek thinker Epicurius in stating that “The relationship between a person and his death, is a strange one. Whenever one is present, the other is nowhere to be seen. As long as a person is alive, his death has not yet happened. And of course […]
The Roots Of Boredom
February 6, 2011
“All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone”. Thus said the French philosopher Blaise Pascal. I used to think that boredom was an affliction that was peculiar to the young. Children and Youth are always rendering that complaint and view it as something very difficult to endure. I […]
From Whence Cometh The Rage?
December 19, 2010
The news this week, as every week, is full of stories about people venting their rage against their fellow-man. An individual walked into a school board meeting, drew graffiti on the wall and then pulled a gun and shot at school board members from point-blank range. We hear of road rage with people taking shots […]
Who said Calvinists don’t know how to have fun?
October 24, 2010
The image of the non-fun loving Calvinist is in dire need of exposure to some light of truth. John Calvin, though one of the intellectual giants of Theology, was not the judgmental curmudgeon that he is so often portrayed. Brother Calvin, it seems was often seen, on days other than the Sabbath, lawn bowling in […]
Aquinas, Kierkegaard and the demonstrability of the existence of God?
October 12, 2010
Thomas Aquinas believed that the existence of God could be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. He stated that there were five ways that this proposition was demonstrable. In his “Summa Theologica” Thomas states his case beginning with the theory of motion and the necessity of a prime mover. Aristotle had made this argument previously and […]
The Meaning of Faith in The Age of Scepticism
June 24, 2010
While scanning the blogosphere and searching for something less depressing than the usual unenlightened nonsense I came across the following: Atheist apologists seem always eager to assert that faith is belief without evidence, notwithstanding that no religion I’m aware of sees it that way (Christianity surely does not) and that dictionaries don’t define it that […]
January 19, 2013
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