luau over
I went over to UK this morning for the second day of the luau but all it was was check-out from the dorms for those who stayed on campus and free breakfast. I had an apple doughnut and then headed over...
View ArticleTwo Problems with Christianity, as Discussed by Celsus
Currently in the United States, it can be difficult to hear any solid arguments against Christianity. To find some well-written polemic against this major religion, one might turn to the writings of...
View ArticleAccounts of Religious Conversion
The accounts of Antony’s and Augustine’s lives were both written with a focus on religious aspects. Beyond this, there is little similarity between the two. The life of one was led very differently...
View ArticleGod’s Existence by Rational Argument
The existence of God can be rationally proven, and Thomas Aquinas does a better job of this than Anselm. Aquinas uses strictly logical reasoning while Anselm starts off with a biased attitude; his...
View Article“I answer that the existence of God can be proved in five ways.”
The author of this quotation is Thomas Aquinas and this is from his answer to objections one and two of the third article from The Existence of God from Summa Theologica. This pertains to the desire to...
View Article“We have made you a creature neither of heaven nor of earth…”
The author of this quotation is Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and this was taken from his Oration on the Dignity of Man. Pico's work surrounded the idea that man is God's greatest creation and should...
View Article“You have made time itself…”
This quotation is from Augustine's Confessions and specifically from chapter 11, pp. 229. Augustine's idea is that time is an illusion because past and future do not ever really exist. They are nothing...
View ArticleThomas More, with Respect to Utopia: Wistful Daydreamer or Whimsical Writer...
Alistair Fox considers Utopia to be Thomas More’s playground for fleshing out ideas that would not have come to fruition in his life. This proposed purpose of Utopia is evident in how More describes...
View Articleproof by failure of imagination
In programming languages today, someone had to answer this question: Prove the contention on page 40 that when a CLU iterator terminates, indicating to its parent for loop that there are no more...
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