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06 Jun

Massachusetts House Passes Bill Legally Abolishing Biological Sex

By Jon
In News Commentary

States continue to pass laws removing the phrase ‘biological sex’, replacing it with gender identity, and formally accepting that ‘femininity’ and ‘masculinity’ are mere social constructs rather than the results of nature. “SECTION 1. Section 92A of chapter

06 May

Ch. 1 Analysis of “The Act Itself” by Jonathan Bennett

By Jon
In "The Act Itself" by Jonathan Bennett

Bennett thinks that moral judgments depend on nonmoral facts and these judgments can be broken down into making/allowing, direct/mediated, actual/probable, and intended/foreseen. The facts can be analysed by identifying the components of a moral sentence like “he hurt Gwendolin” and

19 Apr

“Don’t Judge!” Part II – University Edition

By Jon
In Education, Higher Education

A new video from the Family Policy Institute of Washington gives some perspective on what it means to apply the logic of modern ‘tolerance’ consistently.(c/o LSN) It reminds me of Fulton Sheen’s comment. Modern science alone isn’t going to give

16 Apr

How to Set Yourself or Others Up for Success

By Jon
In Philosophy, Quotes

“Virtue, then, being of two kinds, intellectual and moral.. for it was not by often seeing or often hearing that we got these senses, but on the contrary we had them before we used them, and did not

06 Apr

“I’m Spiritual But Not Religious…”

By Jon
In Culture, Religion

Lately, I’m all about getting to the root of catchy phrases that have serious implications behind them. While we don’t see these sort of assemblies around and probably never will…the video, intentionally or not, does make a powerful point I made

23 Mar

“Don’t Judge!” ….Can We Judge Intentions?

By Jon
In Philosophy

(Just a note, I am writing this article partly for my own benefit and so, please don’t ‘judge’ it according to full academic standards. That’s not my purpose here; it is, however, to speak philosophy in layman’s terms) “Don’t judge!” We’ve

23 Feb

Aquinas’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics

My Translation Latin Different colors are different premises. Bold words were not known on first read. Italics are questions My Translation (for the purposes of studying) = implicit idea made

20 Jan

Online Learning Glossary

By Jon
In Blog

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a

20 Jan

How to Prevent Your Emotional Insecurity

By Jon
In Blog

13 Jan

Phaedo Study Questions

By Jon
In Phaedo of Plato, Plato

How does Socrates argue that philosophy is a preparation for death? What kind of light does this argument shed on his understanding of what the soul is? Thesis: Simply put, Socrates believes that philosophy is