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Running & Freedom
Photo by Paula O’Neil This past Saturday, I was doing my short pre-race day run and, for no apparent reason, my left leg began to hurt badly. I made my way home, estimating the odds of a recovery by...
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Why is the Universe the Way it Is?
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) One of the fundamental questions shared by science, philosophy and theology is the question of why the universe is the way it is. Over the centuries, the answers have fallen...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson, Science & Philosophy
. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In March of 2014 popular astrophysicist and Cosmos host Neil deGrasse Tyson did a Nerdist Podcast. This did not garner much attention until May when some philosophers...
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Leadership & Responsibility
English: Official image of Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The recent resignation of Eric Shinseki from his former position as the head of the Department of...
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The Worst Thing
Anselm of Canterbury (Photo credit: Wikipedia) It waits somewhere in the dark infinity of time. Perhaps the past. Perhaps the future. Perhaps now. The worst thing. Whenever something bad happens to me,...
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Acquired Savantism & Innate Ideas
. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) One classic philosophical dispute is the battle over innate ideas. An innate idea, as the name suggests, is an idea that is not acquired by experience but is “built into”...
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Obligations to People We Don’t Know
#78962122 / gettyimages.com One of the classic moral problems is the issue of whether or not we have moral obligations to people we do not know. If we do have such obligations, then there are also...
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Free Will, Materialism and Dualism
Drawing from René Descartes’ (1596-1650) in “meditations métaphysiques” explaining the function of the pineal gland. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) During the Modern era, philosophers such as Descartes and...
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Guardian Angels
On an episode of the Late Show, host Stephen Colbert and Jane Lynch had an interesting discussion of guardian angels. Lynch, who currently stars as a guardian angel in “Angel from Hell”, related a...
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Believing What You Know is Not True
Embed from Getty Images “I believe in God, and there are things that I believe that I know are crazy. I know they’re not true.” –Stephen Colbert While Stephen Colbert ended up as a successful...
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