April 2007
6 posts
Good Writing
I think I heard this list mentioned in a tape on Classical education. It was said in passing. Good writing has this organization: Principle, Example, Application of Principle to Example, Reaffirmation/Denial.
“"What's done to children, they will do to society." -O. A. Battista”
Historical-Linear Theonomy
A historical-linear approach to theonomy would oppose a federal amendment making same-sex marriage illegal and punishable by death. Why? Does God say that sodomy should be punished by death? Yes. Do theonomists believe that sodomites should still be punished by death? Yes. Then why not the amendment? (I bring the subject of sodomy up only because it is most commonly mentioned when talking about an...
History 716-02 with Prof. Hiroshi Kitamura at...
My Books: 1. DULL, DIPLOMATIC HISTORY OF AMER.REVOLUTION (Required) *ISBN: 9780300038866 2. STEPHANSON, MANIFEST DESTINY (Required) *ISBN: 9780809015849 3. LAFEBER, NEW EMPIRE -35TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION (Required*ISBN: 9780801485954 4. VASEY, WORLD ACCORDING TO HOLLYWOOD,1918-1939 (Required) *ISBN: 9780299151942 5. GADDIS, STRATEGIES OF CONTAINMENT-REV+EXP. (Required)...
"Metaphysics"
The first appearance of the term “metaphysics” used to denote philosophy was in the title of a book. Aristotle’s posthumous release of Meta ta Physicka forever tied the term to the field. The word meta meant “after” and was used to show that this book was the one Aristotle wrote ‘after’ the Physicka, his book on nature. The term is merely chronological,...
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