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G. K. Chesterton, Nietzsche, and the Reelection of Barack Obama

At the level of mysticism, I dealt with the G. K. Chesterton quote below here. But in presenting it again in this post, I want to talk about how curiously Nietzschean it is (though it comes from a Catholic thinker). … Continue reading

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Blogging Schick and Vaughn’s “How to Think about Weird Things,” Chapter 2

Every other year or so I find myself returning to Theodore Schick and Lewis Vaughn’s critical thinking text, How to Think about Weird Things, and rereading the whole darn thing through again. Schick and Vaughn’s book is a rather popular college text, and it’s in its sixth edition. … Continue reading

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G.K. Chesterton’s Answer to the Question, “What Can Evolution Teach Us about Religion?”

It works (even as naturalism flounders for justification and adherents): The point of Darwinism was that the bird with the longer beak could reach worms (let us say) at the bottom of a deeper hole; that the birds who could … Continue reading

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G.K Chesterton’s Defense of Mysticism and Poetry

The Catholic essayist, G.K. Chesterton, in the second chapter of his 1908 book, Orthodoxy , had the interesting and counterintuitive idea that mysticism and poetry do not cause a person to run the risk of going mad, but that doing mathematics … Continue reading

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Philosopher Slavoj Zizek Thinks About Islam, Christianity, G.K. Chesterton, the Book of Job, and the Limits of Atheist Materialism

I like these two segments from a long Zizek talk: And:

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Quote for the Day

G.K. Chesterton: The madman is not someone who has lost his reason. The madman is someone who has lost everything except his reason.

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