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Critiquing the Creation of Knowledge in the Liberal Arts: An Interdisciplinary Course on Death
For nearly a decade, I regularly start the semester by asking students in my upper-level interdisciplinary general studies seminar...
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Freeman Dyson and Humility Theology: Revised Editions of Some Old Ways of Thinking
It is always an inspiration to read Freeman Dyson. I have learned much from his science, and still more...
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The Secret: Negotiating the Slippery Slope between Hope and Hoax
Real estate has buyer’s and seller’s markets–and other industries have them as well. Information industries have a particular kind...
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Hope Materializing
©2007 Terry Helwig Hope Materializing, textile 12’ x 7’. The purple cloth Hope Materializing, woven in the aftermath of...
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The (Natural) Law: Not (just) a good idea…?
Gerard Mannion asks in a recent essay in The Tablet whether natural law is such a good idea (20...
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A Review of “Trialogue: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Dialogue”
Swidler, Leonard, Khalid Duran & Reuven Firestone. Trialogue: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Dialogue. Twenty-Third Publications, 2007. $24.95. This...
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A Revolutionary New View of History and Humanity—Part 1
Vico’s New Science (1725) is a watershed to modern historicism. He was however too far ahead of his contemporaries...
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Theories in Science
The word theory is derived from the Greek theoria: a speculation or view. It is used in both technical...
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“Man Is His Own History” leads to Self-knowledge — Part III
With the above examined understanding of history Vico attempts to oppose Descartes’ claim that “clear and distinct ideas” constitute...
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Aspirational Tense: “I most definitely am, I hope”
The relationship between reality and interpretation is always tenuous. Who’s to say what’s real? There is no simple formula...