Articles on Philosophy by T. Patrick Killough
- Minds Hard-Wired for Truth: C.S. Lewis And Post-Modernism
SUMMARY: Judaism and Christianity convinced the West that religious stories can be true.
Modernists grudgingly conceded that at least non-religious stories can be true. Post-modernists feel that
there cannot be a universal story because there is no universal story teller. These ideas are from Richard
John Neuhaus, Robert W. Jenson and C. S. Lewis.
- Libertarians Pure and Libertarians Moderate
SUMMARY: Libertarians come in two political shapes: pure libertarians (all motor,
no brakes) and moderate libertarians (both motor and brakes). In 1979 Jeff Riggenbach praised the 1960s for
the purest form of libertarianism to date.
- Jacques Maritain: Ideological Foes Can Cooperate
SUMMARY: Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) was the great modernizer of the thoughts
of Aristotelian-Christian thinker Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274). His philosophical slant called "personalism"
has influenced the Christian Socialism movement everywhere. He also analyzed why people cooperate in a project
despite disagreeing on the reasons why the project is right.
- Teach High Schoolers To Philosophize
SUMMARY: The art of philosophizing, as taught by Socrates, is secular enough that
it should be taught in America's public schools. Even if it leads some teens to God.
- Good Journalists Make Good People
SUMMARY: In her 1994 memoir, LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS,
Peggy Noonan, former speech writer for Presidents Reagan and Bush, demonstrates that being a good, truth-telling
journalist aiming at the common good can make you a good person.
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