Tag: Plato
For Christmas, Reading St. Athanasius on the Beauty of the Universe
Besides the prose itself being so pleasing to read, these thoughts reaffirm some of my main reasons for believing this universe is the product of a Mind.
Three Thousand Years of Darwinism
I began to suspect that Darwinism was being taught at school in a somewhat philosophically decontextualized way, lacking historical background.
What Does Your Brain Do? And What Can It Not Do?
A surprising result of pioneering neurosurgery was the discovery that some mental processes could be stimulated in the brain but others could not be.
Do We Need Language to Think?
For a long time, it was only a philosophical issue: Plato saw thinking as a conversation with oneself.
Life Devalued: Suicide and Infanticide in Classical Antiquity
Nick Vujicic’s story would probably have turned out quite differently if he had been born in ancient Greece or Rome.