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 …

Cosmopolitanism’s Affirmation of Diversity

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

Painel.Paulo.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 …

RT for Week of April 26

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 …