Category: Ideas Have Consequences
Human Nature – Reality or Fantasy?
Ideas Have Consequences: Human Nature – Reality or Fantasy? From “gender-bending” to “gender-less” in less than two weeks. Honestly, I couldn’t make this up because I’d lose all credibility. Yet life certainly is stranger than fiction; oftentimes sadly so. In my last article, I quoted a feminist professor who spoke with pride about how she [...]
Rediscovering Our Humanity… Metaphysically
We are raising activists, not saints! I don’t remember exactly what it was that made me scribble down that observation because I was cooking lunch for my children and was half listening to the news on the television, but that observation was later reinforced when I came across an article on the internet written by [...]
Is That Your Final Answer?
Ideas Have Consequences – Is That Your Final Answer: The Principle of Finality and Teenagers The tough question Every year, around November, I have an involuntary front row seat to the latest round of teenage angst dealing with University applications. This year was particularly intense because two of my philosophy students were debating between attending a [...]
Science, Beauty, Teenagers and the God Question
Ideas Have Consequences – Science, Beauty, Teenagers and the God Question Young Atheists One of the most difficult issues, with which I have to personally deal as a teacher, is the student who enters my Grade 9 Religion class at the age of fourteen already an avowed atheist. While I have come to expect this from some [...]
Teenagers and Truth
Ideas Have Consequences – Teenagers and Truth What is truth? This is not an idle question, especially for teenagers. They may not ask it this way but there is a hunger, a need, an intense yearning to grab onto something that makes sense of their existence. The young man’s question to Jesus “Master, what must [...]
The Metaphysics of Man and Broccoli
Ideas Have Consequences – The Metaphysics of Man and Broccoli “I have taken more out of philosophy than any other class this year not only because it helps prep for university, but also gave me a lot to think about in the way I live my life. One of my favorite aspects of this course [...]
The Need for Universals
Ideas Have Consequences – The Need for Universals “Wonder and the passion for philosophy, let us explore all aspects of life and understand all that it has to offer. “I had claimed to have learned little to nothing in regards to valuable life lessons in the past four years. For that much, I was correct. [...]
The Eclipse of Reason
Ideas Have Consequences – The Eclipse of Reason Pope Benedict’s 2010 Christmas Greeting to the Roman Curia, a Catholic version of the American “State of the Union Address”, was notable for the emphasis placed upon human reason. His Holiness did not so much focus on the loss of Faith occurring in Western Democracies as he [...]
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