Category: Philosophy

Kierkegaard, Repentance, and the True Self

Daniel Goodman — July 10, 2024

Kierkegaard, Repentance, and the True Self

It can be easy to miss Kierkegaard’s unusual path towards authenticity: a life of repentance.

Why the Church Needs Kierkegaard

Aaron Edwards — August 15, 2023

Why the Church Needs Kierkegaard

How do Kierkegaard's critiques of the church land when being anti-Christendom has become the new bourgeois faith?

Beyond Romanticism: Kierkegaard, Irony, and the Modern Self

Daniel Goodman — August 1, 2023

Beyond Romanticism: Kierkegaard, Irony, and the Modern Self

Far from creating the modern subjective psyche, Kierkegaard worked hard to undermine it.

Augustine Against Vitalism

John Ehrett — June 27, 2023

Augustine Against Vitalism

Against the charge that Christianity neuters human excellence, Augustine has already provided an answer.

Warspeak: Nietzsche’s Victory Over Nihilism: A Review

Christian Winter — March 17, 2023

Warspeak: Nietzsche’s Victory Over Nihilism: A Review

Was Nietzsche really a nihilist? Or was he seeking life, and life abundant?

Revisiting Platonic Education: The Ever Sharable Feast

Colin Redemer — March 3, 2023

Revisiting Platonic Education: The Ever Sharable Feast

Colin Redemer responds to a review of his chapter on Plato in "Reforming Classical Education".

Descartes Among the Ancients

Onsi Aaron Kamel — April 11, 2022

Descartes Among the Ancients

Hobbes Called Descartes Ancient. Descartes Agreed.

Metamodernism and Its Premodern Forebear

D. C. Schindler — February 16, 2022

Metamodernism and Its Premodern Forebear

Is the proposal of "metamodernism" as novel as it seems?

Kierkegaard at the Rail: The Individual and the Eucharist in Kierkegaard’s Thought

Philip Jaseph — November 9, 2021

Kierkegaard at the Rail: The Individual and the Eucharist in Kierkegaard’s Thought

To the surprise of many, Kierkegaard wrote (and preached) about the sacraments often.

An Echo of Grace: Plato’s Doctrine of Gifts

Patrick Harmon — November 23, 2018

An Echo of Grace: Plato’s Doctrine of Gifts

The interpreter that undertakes to compare the works of Plato with the gospel must begin somewhere. Here I attempt to set out Plato’s view on gifts and divine dispensation, and would ask that you consider the two following texts: