One of the oldest and most exhausted questions in the history of philosophy is why Plato found it necessary and expedient to deport the poets from his perfect society in The Republic. It’s a question many have hypothesized about although, perhaps, unsatisfactorily. One of the 20th century’s great classicists, Eric A. Havelock, considered the expulsion of the poets in his … [Read more...] about Questioning Doubt and the Expulsion of the Poets
Philosophy
The Wager: Revisited
Blaise Pascal, perhaps most renowned for a mathematical concept called Pascal’s Triangle, also wrote a short essay on a very serious topic: does God exist? In order to solve this eternal question, he devised an intellectual formula--a schema--to find an answer to this large question. This schema is an intellectual outline to consider the possible answers to that question and … [Read more...] about The Wager: Revisited
Disciplinary Inaction
We live in an unnecessarily divided world. A world where religions are pitted against one another, where people fight over real or perceived differences. A world where technology allows us to shout and scream in a digital whirlpool. A world where philosophy seems archaic or even tangential. Much of the strife in our world comes from a lack of trust across, and perhaps a loss of … [Read more...] about Disciplinary Inaction