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Politics After Macintyre, Philip E. Devine
Politics After Macintyre, Philip E. Devine
Philosophy Faculty Publications
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Syllabus: Faith And Science, Nicanor Austriaco
Syllabus: Faith And Science, Nicanor Austriaco
Spring 2015, Faith and Science
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Prudence And Executive Control: An Analysis Of The Decision-Making Processes Of The Christian And The Modern Man, Ryan Frazier
Prudence And Executive Control: An Analysis Of The Decision-Making Processes Of The Christian And The Modern Man, Ryan Frazier
Spring 2015, Faith and Science
Scientific research and Christian philosophy often appear to be at odds. These different perspectives sometimes offer different answers to the same question. In the light of these perspectives, however, we can gain a greater understanding of the human experience. Executive control, or how a person decides to do something, is unable to account for the greater question of why. St. Thomas Aquinas¹ explanation of prudence provides reasonable evidence in favor of this perspective. In order to understand the Christian intellectual virtue of prudence, a mastery of the classical, Thomistic account is required. Despite the gaps between science and religious thought, …
“In Pursuit Of Purified Persuasions”: Making (Some) Sense Of The Modern Mind, John Emmet Clarke
“In Pursuit Of Purified Persuasions”: Making (Some) Sense Of The Modern Mind, John Emmet Clarke
Spring 2015, Faith and Science
What is more essential to the philosophical act, what we study or how we study? Taking its cue from a line by Thomas Aquinas on the corruptibility of the natural law, this essay seeks to make some sense of the ways in which our way of knowing and, consequently, of being, is affected by the sins of our philosophical forefathers. The essay advises against putting faith in any particular school of thought, be it the pensee d'jour or philosophia perennis, since our ability to comprehend and converse in their varying tenets is compromised by the very state of the post-modern …