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West Point and the Modern World View
By jventola on May 26, 2010 | In philo | Send feedback »
Recently, some Massasoit students encountered a West Point tradition and tried to make sense of it. Here is what they had to go on:An interesting feature of the folk version of Wisdom is that it is often surprising and even paradoxical. I think this… more »
Thoughts on Rauhut, Chapter One
By jventola on May 25, 2010 | In philo | Send feedback »
Thoughts on Chapter One if Nils Ch. Rauhut's Ultimate Questions.This is a chapter about human faculties (reason, observation, imagination) and human institutions (mythologies, religions, science, and philosophy). So it is pretty abstract and concept… more »
Magnanimity
By jventola on May 21, 2010 | In philo | Send feedback »
Does Aristotle's concept of magnanimity apply to nations as well as to persons? How can we tell when someone has this quality? Can you think of any famous examples? What would happen at either extreme of this virtue? Can you think of someone with too lit… more »
Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows
By jventola on May 18, 2010 | In philo | Send feedback »
After nominating Sonia Sotomayer to the Supreme Court last year, President Obama has followed up by nominating Elena Kagan, former Dean of the Harvard Law School and a former Soliciter General of the United States. Unlike Sotomayer, who was a career jur… more »
Freedom or Equality
By jventola on Mar 2, 2010 | In philo | Send feedback »
My friends, who send their teenager to a private Catholic school at great cost even thought they are not religious, tell me that they would support a law forcing all parents to send their kids to public schools. That way, they reason, there would be mor… more »
