In my previous post, I put forth the notion that the intellect expresses itself in many differentiated activities that are nonetheless the same in kind. One kind of intellect evaluates and selects among competing choices in actions. Another kind grasps first principles as wholes. Another kind informs productive activity. Yet another [...]
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Christian Philosophy? VI
Posted in Christian Philosophy on Wednesday, 18 November 2009 | 3 Comments »
Christian Philosophy? V
Posted in Christian Philosophy on Tuesday, 17 November 2009 | 2 Comments »
I have been commenting that philosophy and Christianity may be compatible terms if both are seen as ways of living. Philosophy as a way of life is unquestionably (in my view) the ancient understanding of philosophy. A similar way of understanding can be seen among the earliest writings of Christianity, including its own [...]
Christian Philosophy? IV
Posted in Christian Philosophy on Thursday, 12 November 2009 | 2 Comments »
In my previous remarks, it will certainly be felt that I did not actually make a case for philosophy as a way of life over philosophy as a life of the mind. I simply asserted, however obliquely, that the ancient understanding of philosophy as a way of life is that which best comports with [...]
Christian Philosophy? III
Posted in Christian Philosophy on Monday, 9 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If one wants to determine whether there is such a thing as “Christian philosophy,” one must be clear on what one means by both “Christian” and by “philosophy.” In the previous post, we noted the difficulty with the term “Christian” and its resistance to a generally agreed reduction. We will have to come [...]
Christian Philosophy? II
Posted in Christian Philosophy on Thursday, 29 October 2009 | 2 Comments »
If one is going to talk of a “Christian philosophy” and if one is going to define such along the lines of which B N Tatakis has done, then one is going to have to offer definitions, or to at least delimit, one’s terms: Christian, philosophy, truth, faith, even, perhaps, reason. One is also [...]
Christian Philosophy? I
Posted in Christian Philosophy on Tuesday, 27 October 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’m going to conduct an experiment of sorts here: I’m going to think out loud on my blog. I have recently begun reading a book by B. N. Tatakis entitled Christian Philosophy in the Patristic and Byzantine Tradition (tr George Dragas, Orthodox Research Institute 2007), in which, in the first chapter, Tatakis asks the [...]

