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On Paradox
A Philosophical Happy Hour on the role of paradox in carrying out investigations of nature, humanity, and being. “A paradox”, writes the Thomist philosopher Frederick D. Wilhelmsen, “is the tension existing between two apparently opposed propositions which cross one another and thus find themselves at peace.”[1] Wilhelmsen contrasts the paradoxical with the dialectical—understood in the…
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On Arguing God’s Existence
A Philosophical Happy Hour on the Unseriousness of Modern Objectors It has become fashionable for analytic philosophers in recent years[1] to attack arguments for the existence of God. These attacks, though their permutations are quite numerous, ordinarily attempt to show that the conception of God somehow entails a contradiction. These might include some form of…