My Spring 2009 Moral and Spiritual Dimensions of Education course Final paper submission (limited to 10 pages). I attempt to synthesis Appiah with Caputo, Vollman …
City Journal on Freire
Sol Stern at City Journal fingers Paulo Freire as the source of much of what ails today’s teacher education: Pedagogy of the Oppressor. Is education …
May Kinklings
If you are in the Triad, North Carolina area on Monday night, and you are looking for stimulating conversation, consider the Kinklings, a Men’s ministry …
The Postmodern Switch
The radical Reductionist attempts of the Enlightenment, however, did have a positive affect. It encouraged a larger cultural switch in allegiance. In light of the …
Reductionism in Epistemology
What makes Dooyeweerd’s theory of Worldview additionally attractive is that it offers an explanation as to the Rationalism of Modernity. When the commitment is left …
Worldview: Acknowledging Faith’s Role in Knowledge
I have contrasted the Enlightenment and Postmodern Epistemologies, while at the same time developing the story of the concept of Worldview. I now want to …
Worldview: A Brief History
Weltanschuung The word Worldview is what is known as a loanword. It is an English version of a German word Weltanschuung. It literally means “World” …
The Modern Epistemic Debate
Philosophy seeks to grasp, to make sense of, the reality we all experience. We recognize that there is great unity in reality but that there …
Love is Recognizing Otherness
The Four authors encountered in class, Capoto, Vollman, Bauman and Appiah, all demonstrated an awareness that one has responsibility for the Other, and that this …