If you would prefer to watch something than read if, you can find the video version of this here. We are a decent ways away from Reformation Day, but in my Omni V class, we are in full swing with some reformers. I assigned a discussion questions for my students and their families to talk about …
Category Archives: Philosophy/Ethics
How do Cicero, Trump, and the French Revolution Fit Together?
If you would like to see this instead of read it, you may find the video here. Welcome to another episode of The Doctor’s In. Today, we are looking back in order to look ahead, which is the right way to view history. Mankind has a weird way of repeating itself, getting into similar cycles that …
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The Doctor is In
If you would prefer to see this post rather than read it, you can find the video for it here. Hello and welcome to the first episode of The Doctor’s In. This is something that has been brewing in me for a few years now, and it is now time to do something about it. I …
We Are From The Government And Here To Help
Inspired by Thucydides. Excerpt from a lecture I gave last week: Recently, I have seen a lot of posts about what the government should or shouldn’t be doing. The question I want to consider today is what is the role of government? Being in Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War, I figure it is a good place to start …
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The Fragility of Hearts and Lungs
The gloriousness of life is that it is not fair. If it were, all of humanity would be damned. Some people do have it less “fair” than others. Some people have a really hard time just staying alive. Some people are only alive because of miracles whether it be people being in the right place …
Getting Them from There to Here
For a guy that was born with a speech impediment, it is interesting that talking has been my job for the last 11 years. Unrelated to that, I misspeak a lot. It’s probably genetic from my mother, but we’ll just keep that under the house. Adults don’t seem to care all that much when you …
Glory in the Mundane
Achilles, King Arthur, Aragorn, Anakin. Heroes. Every young man’s dream. I grew up with a world in my head. These men swirled through it. I always wanted to be the hero, to swing a sword and save someone, anyone. I didn’t really care who. I just wanted to matter. The story that was my real …
A Glitch in the System?
Nassim Nicholas Taleb changed how I looked at the world a few years ago. Black Swan, Skin In The Game, and Antifragile taught me a new way to analyze the world and myself. You should check out all three of these books. For today though, one of the things I took from him is that within every system, there …
Is Paideia Just a Fancy Word for Education?
There is something about old words that has been lost over time. Our society and language have been dumbed down to the point where things only have surface meaning. It is quite terrible. There are some great words that we have lost like arete for virtue and trouthe for truth. Arete and trouthe are both …
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To Your Good Health and Prosperity
Over the past year, I have been working on one of my deficiencies. I have been active in my quest to conquer it, yet to no avail. I have come to the conclusion that this is the way that God has made me. God has made me to not really enjoy desserts. I have slaved, …