Wittgenstein’s Aphorisms

I’ve been putting off reading through Wittgenstein’s Culture and Value, a book of his aphoristic statements on culture, religion, and, well, things he considers of value. I was struck by it when a guy brought it in to sell me at the bookstore, and when I finally got an order for it today, I figured [...]

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Henri Bergson on Posing the Problem

I call him an amateur in philosophy who acceptsjust as they come the terms of a given problem, believes it definitely posed, and limits himself to choosing between the patent solutions which necessarily exist previous to his choice.  But to philosophize in earnest would here consist in creating the formulation of the problem as well [...]

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Scott H. Moore’s “Christian History, Providence, and Michel Foucault”

Big paper on Foucault’s historical method for my Historiography class this semester, so look for more of this sort of thing to come. Scott Moore, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University, states in the first page of his essay, “Christian History, Providence, and Michel Foucault,” that he is not historian, but rather a philosopher. [...]

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The Chastened Neo-Platonism of Augustine’s Confessions

I read James K.A. Smith’s Introducing Radical Orthodoxy a bit ago, and one of the things that intrigued me the most was RO’s participational ontology. I figured this was a good reason to finally crack open Augustine’s Confessions, a book that any ought to read. Here is a short summary of Augustine’s neo-platonic participationism as [...]

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A Symposium: In What Does Being Subsist?

Dylan Thomas: The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bent by the same wintry fever. Johan Von Staupitz: Not by chance, therefore, but by His bidding did [...]

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