A Quote from G.K. Chesterton: Responding to Relativism By Returning to Traditional Beliefs

"A brilliant anarchist like Mr. John Davidson feels an irritation against ordinary morality, and therefore he invokes will—will to anything. He only wants humanity to want something. But humanity does want something. It wants ordinary morality. He rebels against the law and tells us to will something or anything. But we have willed something. We …

Theism, Transcendental Idealism, and Phenomenology

A common complaint about early modern philosophy is that just when it becomes tough for a Descartes or a Berkeley to argue for their philosophical system, they wheel in God’s intervention as an explanation of the whole thing. I can understand why this would be unsatisfying to those who want to see a justification worked …

How Metaphysical Must We Go? Transcendence, Tradition, and Skepticism

Hume was led by his study of philosophy to a rather skeptical conclusion. In his view, what goes on in the formation of our beliefs is not settled by reason, but by custom, which he calls “the great guide of human life.”[1] We have some natural instincts and habits that shape our behavior and how …