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Philosophy Blog Posts - FifteenEightyFour

  • Why Is There Something and Not Rather Nothing? Hey, Whatever
  • 05 February 2025, J. Budziszewski
  • According to Thomas Aquinas, knowledge of first causes is the most fundamental kind of knowledge.  Since a cause is an explanation – a reason why something The post Why Is There Something and Not Rather Nothing? Hey, Whatever first appeared on Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press....
  • Bidding farewell to Kant’s ‘murderer at the door’
  • 04 February 2025, Jens Timmermann
  • Kant’s 1797 essay “On a Supposed Right to Lie from Love of Humanity” has done more than any of his other works to scare students off his moral theory. Interpreters The post Bidding farewell to Kant’s ‘murderer at the door’ first appeared on Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press....
  • Noah the Environmentalist and the Flood
  • 31 January 2025, Philip C Almond
  • For the last two thousand years and more, the story of Noah and the flood in the book of Genesis has been thought of as an historical account of what happened The post Noah the Environmentalist and the Flood first appeared on Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press....

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