metaphysics Archives - Institute for Classical Education

December 7, 2020

Note: The following entry is from Dr. Owen Anderson (Arizona State University), a Fellow of the Institute for Classical Education When did philosophy begin? We have a very specific date for this. May 28, 585 B.C. We can even narrow it down further to the time of day. I don’t know that any other discipline has...

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Awe and wonder still remain

by Rob Jackson

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August 3, 2020

This past week, I heard Kenneth L. Woodward interviewed on his 2016 book, Getting Religion: Faith, Culture, and Politics from the Age of Eisenhower to the Era of Obama (Penguin Random House). I was intrigued by Woodward’s vast experience as the former religion editor of Newsweek, where he went from observations in Omaha to visiting...

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Thales and the Beginning of Philosophy (by Owen Anderson)

Awe and wonder still remain