Blogging through Critique of Pure Reason part 9: Transcendental Doctrine of Method
Series Index Criique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (Hackett edition) Here we are, at the last post of this Kantian read-through. Our hope is that, if you do set…
Blogging through Critique of Pure Reason part 8: The Ideal of Pure Reason
Series Index Criique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (Hackett edition) Yes, I know. We’ve now spilled over into the third year of this read-through, and it’s not early in…
Blogging through Critique of Pure Reason part 7: Cosmology and its Antinomies
Series Index Criique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (Hackett edition) At this point it might take us longer to write these blog posts than it took Kant to write…
Reading Through Principles of Christian Theology part 2: Chapters 2-3
I bought Principles of Christian Theology in 2007, when I was working on my master’s thesis and made it my business to own as many volumes of Christian existentialist literature…
Blogging through Critique of Pure Reason part 6: Pure Psychology and Amphiboly
Series Index Whew! What a semester! As you might have guessed, my crazy teaching overload and Todd’s research responsibilities have pulled us away from Kant for the span of the…
Blogging through Critique of Pure Reason part 5: Noumena, Phenomena, and Transcendental Dialectic
Series Index About the time Todd’s travel schedule allowed him to dig back into this series, my own summer travels picked up, and you know what that means: we just…
Blogging through Critique of Pure Reason part 3: Transcendental Synthesis
Series Index Introductions and the Introduction Transcendental Aesthetic and Introduction to Transcendental Logic Transcendental Synthesis When Critique of Pure Reason (hereafter CPR–Todd had a good idea with that one) starts…
Blogging Through Critique of Pure Reason, part 2: Transcendental Aesthetic and Introduction to Transcendental Logic
Series Index Introductions and the Introduction Transcendental Aesthetic and Introduction to Transcendental Logic Before I launch into my first contribution to our joint project on Kant, a personal note. I…
Blogging through Critique of Pure Reason part 1: Introductions and the Introduction
Series Index Introductions and the Introduction Once again a conversation about what we haven’t read has turned into an ambition to read. Those of you who listen to the Christian…
The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #152: What Is Enlightenment?
Nathan Gilmour leads a discussion with Michial Farmer and Danny Anderson about Immanuel Kant’s 1784 essay “What Is Enlightenment?”
The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #143: Proofs for God
Nathan Gilmour hosts a conversation about the five “proofs of God” from the opening sections of Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae. Our discussion ranges over what a proof is for, whether the…
Christian Humanist Profiles 10: Kierkegaard’s Concept of Faith
Ever since the English-speaking world discovered the work of Søren Kierkegaard in the middle part of the last century, he has been an indispensable part of the Western philosophical and…
Christian Humanist Profiles, Episode #4: Job Through the Ages
Perhaps no book in the Hebrew Bible is more disturbing, befuddling, and thought-provoking than The Book of Job. Believers and nonbelievers alike have wrestled like the ideas and emotions put…
Blogging Through Truth and Method, Post 2: The Subjectivization of Aesthetics (42-81)
In the last few pages of the previous section, Gadamer dismissed the relegation of taste to the realm of aesthetics; in this section, he is going to critique two major…
The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #97: Kubla Khan
General Introduction – We read the poem – Listener feedback – The best listener email ever The Back Story – Laudanum – Seeing images – The disruptive doorbell – The…