This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article seeks to show that the rights which protect people's autonomy should be entrenched in the constitution of a democratic state. It ...

Many of the Third Orders and lay movements in the Church have a rather simple idea at their core: if one is called to holiness, then one should make use of the “tools” of holiness—i.e. basic Christian ...

Philosophy can be defined in many ways. What is integral to the definitions is that philosophy employs arguments, rather than say an appeal to religious revelation. One can create arguments for ...

When McDonald’s pledged in September 2015 to use cage-free eggs in all of its restaurants in the next decade, it came as no surprise to Calvin philosophy professor Matt Halteman. Not because he’s a ...

One of the evergreen topics in online discussions of physics is what role, if any, philosophy plays in the discipline. I've been blogging since 2002 (which is after the dinosaurs, but before the giant ...

Agnes Callard and the politics of public philosophy. In her new book, Callard makes the case that we should all live more philosophically but where does politics fit in? Agnes Callard’s Open Socrates ...

Our job is to persuade by argument, not by wielding influence. By Agnes Callard Ms. Callard is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago. Recently I was asked to sign a ...

Philosophy can be defined in many ways. What is integral to the definitions is that philosophy employs arguments, rather than say an appeal to religious revelation. One can create arguments for ...