Distinctively human action—that is, the kind of action which belongs to human beings and no other animals—receives its specifically-human character from the use of reason; and reason is developed through learning.
The Liberal Arts
Real Education for a Digital World
We live in a new world. No matter your city, state, province, or country, you live in this world too. It is a world where everything is different; for it is a world in which we are different. Human beings have always dwelt through technological means of interacting with their environments--whether that technology be automobiles, …
Quaestiones Disputatae: Quodlibet I
As part of a forthcoming endeavor, I am launching a new program of Quaestiones disputatae. More details will be shared on this new program in the near future. Right now, however, I would like to draw attention explicitly to the public-facing part of this program, the quodlibetal question. Quodlibetal questions were a special form of disputation in …
Pursuing Truth, Refuting Error
The following is a reflection from some surplus notes to tonight's reading for the Aquinas Seminar. How do we pursue wisdom and attain truth? It is not an easy, simple, straightforward, linear task. It is a difficult, complex, windy, recursive process, wherein the chief obstacle is ourselves and our tendency to presume we know more …
Continuum Philosophical Insight 