Fides Quaerens Intellectum

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. -C.S. Lewis

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Entries from March 2008

On Your Way to the Ph.D.? Take the Left Fork in the Road

March 11th, 2008 4 Comments

It’s no secret that academia is, and has been, dominated by politically and socially left-tilting faculty members. For years now David Horowitz has been the most prominent voice on this issue, and indeed at times has been a voice crying in the wilderness. This is not an argument for conservatives to avoid higher [...]

Ethics and the “whatever” generation

March 2nd, 2008 2 Comments

This past week at IMPACT 360 (www.impact360.net) saw the awakening of students’ critical thinking capacities as those were brought to bear on the subject of ethics. Too broad? For sure. This was an introductory module to ethics–specifically an introduction to the major systems of ethics, including deontology, utilitarianism and virtue ethics. [...]