“It should be noted … that Sartre’s attempt to eliminate God is seriously flawed. First of all, he constructs a straw God by defining him as “self-caused.” Most theists do not believe God is a self-caused being; they hold God to be an uncaused being. A self-caused being is impossible, as Sartre points out. But… Read More Sartre’s Humanism. It took to the streets where it still thrives.
The New “Luddites” on College Campuses. “In this video, I discuss the New Luddites we’re seeing on college campuses. I try to place this movement in conversation with philosophers throughout history who have been critical of technology. Topics include: the history of the Luddites, Plato on writing in the Phaedrus, Heidegger’s ‘The Question Concerning Technology’,… Read More The Revolt Against Technological Excess.
I’ve always loved Camus. But his shadow side must be faced. In his novella, The Fall, the Algerian-French philosopher and novelist Albert Camus stops lamenting social injustice for a moment as well as the “meaninglessness” and “absurdity” of an empty Nietzschean universe in general, and turns instead to biography, specifically to his own cruelty. Camus was a… Read More The Falls of Albert Camus
…and Epistemology. [P]hilosophy and religion deal with the same basic questions. Christians, and especially evangelical Christians, have tended to forget this. Philosophy and religion do not deal with different questions, though they give different answers and in different terms. The basic questions of both philosophy and religion (and I mean religion here in the wide… Read More Francis Schaeffer on the Philosophy of being
