If you know only a little bit about Plato, what you know is probably that he had some very silly (sounding?) ideas. For example, that he believed in Forms: thing such as Beauty, Virtue, Justice, and The Good (always capitalized in English discussions of Plato), things that are supposed to be in some mysterious sense [...]
Category Archives: metaphysics
Craig on the moral argument
Posted by Chris Hallquist on April 3, 2010
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This is the third and last of my posts on the arguments in the third edition of William Lane Craig’s book Reasonable Faith. The previous posts in the series are Craig on the ontological and (Leibnizian) cosmological arguments and Craig on the teleological argument. Most of the rest of the contents of the book are [...]
Craig on the Ontological and (Leibnizian) Cosmological Arguments
Posted by Chris Hallquist on March 8, 2010
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Recently, I’ve been looking over the third edition of William Lane Craig’s Reasonable Faith, as well as the textbook he wrote with J.P. Moreland, Philosophical Foundations of a Christian Worldview. One thing these books have that’s missing from a lot of Craig’s works is an attempt to defend, in some detail, arguments that he usually [...]
Letters to Doubting Thomas (a review)
Posted by Chris Hallquist on March 1, 2010
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When Lukeprog posted his Ultimate Truth Seeker Challenge, I read over his reading list and saw that it was mostly books I had already read. But I put my name down anyway, because I figured the books I hadn’t read would be a good way to round out my philosophy of religion reading, and reviewing [...]
Playing games with “truth”
Posted by Chris Hallquist on January 26, 2010
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PZ Myers highlights a quote from Irving Kristol, a big fan of Leo Strauss’ political philosophy: “There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people,” he says in an interview. “There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are [...]