May 17, 2006

This Post is Old!

The post you are reading is years old and may not represent my current views. I started blogging around the time I first began to study philosophy, age 17. In my view, the point of philosophy is to expose our beliefs to rational scrutiny so we can revise them and get better beliefs that are more likely to be true. That's what I've been up to all these years, and this blog has been part of that process. For my latest thoughts, please see the front page.

How to be a Christian Philosophy Professor

Douglas Groothuis, a philosophy professor at Denver Seminary has some interesting thoughts on Christianity, philosophy, and education in his article A Christian Philosophy of Education on his blog, The Constructive Curmudgeon. An excerpt:

the necessary and sufficient conditions for being a philosopher are a strong and lived-out inclination to pursue truth about philosophical matters through the rigorous use of human reasoning, and the ability to do so with some intellectual facility. By �philosophical matters� I mean the enduring questions of life�s meaning, purpose, and value as they relate to all the major divisions of philosophy (primarily ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics). Not all Christians can be philosophers, but all should think philosophically (i.e., critically and carefully) about their own worldview and how it relates to the intellectual challenges they face from other worldviews.
Posted by Kenny at May 17, 2006 2:50 PM
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CEM Joad (1891-1953) would have made a great Christian Philosopher :

http://gatwickcity.phpbb3now.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1013&p=15682&hilit=christmas+lecturettes#p15682 (Essayette 6)

Sadly, CEMJ died of cancer aged 61 - just after he wrote "The Recovery of Belief - A Restatement of Christian Philosophy" (Faber & Faber 1952)

Posted by: Richard W. Symonds at April 16, 2011 12:00 PM

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