Time and Eternity: Is the Kingdom in the Present?
Time is like reading a single page at a time, while eternity is like holding the entire book in your hands and seeing all pages simultaneously.
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Philosophy & Ethics
Metaphysical and ethical questions—on beauty, mind, and the good.
On Descartes and Certainty
An essay about Cartesian certainty and its role in global scepticism. It is argued that we should reject his views: the condition of certainty imposes on knowledge is too strong to be acceptable to the point that it undermines itself and hence his rationalist project is ultimately self-defeating.
Improving the Self through Virtue Ethics
This essay is about the applications of virtue ethics - a normative theory of ethics - in everyday life. Normative ethics, virtue ethics, and its applications to self-improvement are discussed.
Does God cause the grass to grow?
Is it truly God that causes the grass to grow? Is not the growth of such grass fully explained by science? If matter provides a sufficient explanation, how can God be regarded as the cause?
Love, fairness and the problem of value
This essay is primarily concerned with love as a moral action between two volitions. It is critical of the instrumental view of reality adopted in contemporary conceptions of economics, and utilitarian ethics.
That Fairness is a Quality of Love
Fairness is the quality of love that does not subjectify or objectify but enfolds as the father did his prodigal son. In it is the love that radiates and the love that soothes, the love that comes from the ocean and the sun
The Ascension, and Will of Heaven
We have a moral prerogative, an instillation within our nature, a call of destiny, that those of us, those of us with ability–or with the impetus to seek to become capable–must thoroughly transform and be the bedrock and foundation of our culture.