Showing posts with label 21st century philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 21st century philosophy. Show all posts
Friday, November 21, 2025

In defense of Western culture (and our Western heritage)

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“ Ipsa scientia potestas est. ” (“Knowledge itself is power.”) – Francis Bacon , in his “Meditationes Sacrae” (1597) , with the quotation of...
Sunday, October 12, 2025

Curious academic fads: Multiculturalism, postcolonialism, and cultural relativism

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“What ‘multiculturalism’ boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture – and you cannot blame any cul...
Sunday, August 10, 2025

Why you should be concerned about postmodernism

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I have long had a fair number of friends who identify as “Marxist” or “socialist.” But I freely admit that relatively few of my friends ha...
Monday, July 28, 2025

Why I believe that critical race theory is unscientific

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Scientific theories must be testable. But if both results are believed to “prove” one right … Suppose I told you that something really crazy...
Sunday, May 18, 2025

Postmodernists seem to misunderstand the natural sciences

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“Rather, they cling to the dogma imposed by the long post-Enlightenment hegemony over the Western intellectual outlook , which can be summar...
Monday, May 5, 2025

Struggle over the Marxist heritage: The battle for the ivory tower

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Karl Marx attacked other socialist and communist schools in “The Communist Manifesto” The debate over the Marxist heritage is at least as ol...
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

A review of “Skepticism and Religious Relativism” (audiobook)

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I was expecting something very different from this audiobook. Specifically, I was expecting to get an overview of  agnostics ,  atheists , a...