The consolations of philosophy went only so far. Three centuries later that remains true and, in The Missing Shade of Blue, Erdal delights in exposing the limits of reasoning. For Harry Sanderson, a ...
But we need to understand what it is and what it teaches before we can receive the consolation it is meant to offer. Providence begins and ends with God, his identity and activity. God alone is ...
The Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies plays an active role in several university-wide, national, and international research and educational consortiums — in addition to housing the ...
It is you who have reconciled us with God, you are the only refuge of sinners and the safe harbor of those who are shipwrecked; you are the consolation of the world, the ransom of captives ...
We just refuse to allow the insuperable problem to take up more of our imagination and opt instead to focus on what can still be improved and enjoyed. This is a philosophy of pessimism rather than of ...