Michel Foucault On Power

Power, in the Foucaultian thought is not easy to define. In fact, I don’t believe Foucault ever defines what power  is or explains how power works in societies and cultures. Further, Foucault does not tell  us how power contributes to the society’s good and progress. It seems to me that  Foucault attempts  to present a mediated notion of power [...]

J. Kameron Carter Lectures on “Race, Identity, and The Darker Side of Christianity”

Click on the title”Race, Identity, and The Darker Side of Christianity“  you’ll be directed to the site to listen to Carter’s lecture.

J. Kameron Carter’s Lecture on “Language and the Theological Roots of Scientific Classification: Jose de Acosta and the Production of Modernity’s Racial Imagination”

Source: flyingfarther

Can you Guess It? Question Series (Response)

Can you Guess It?
Last month we started a questions series called “Can you Guess It “? Since we don’t have a winner, below are the questions we asked followed by their answers:

Can you guess the world’s first published autobiography? 
What is the world’s first published philosophy of history?

The answers are :

Confessions (Click here to read the full text [...]

The Bible and Critical Theory

Roland Boer, Rescuing the Bible: A response
Anne Elvey
The Bible and Critical Theory, Vol. 5, No. 2: 20.1-20.8.
http://publications.epress.monash.edu/doi/abs/10.2104/bc090020?ai=rs&ui=mim&af=T
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How the Bible can be red: Some thoughts on Roland Boer’s Rescuing the
Bible
George Aichele
The Bible and Critical Theory, Vol. 5, No. 2: 21.1-21.7.
http://publications.epress.monash.edu/doi/abs/10.2104/bc090021?ai=rs&ui=mim&af=T
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A religious left assessment of Roland Boer’s Rescuing the Bible
David Jobling
The Bible and Critical Theory, Vol. 5, [...]

Thomas Hobbes on Libertarian Freedom & Human Liberty

Philosophers have come up with various theories or categories of determinism and free will, concerning how things work in the world. Among the more popular views are (1) Hard determinism, which maintains the idea of determinism as a true value and free will does not exist. (2) Incompatibilism, this school of thought reasons if   determinism [...]

Interview: Richard Dawkins and Alister McGrath

Abraham Lincoln as Philosopher

Today I listened to an interesting talk  (with the guest speaker, Al Gini) on the philosophy (and theology) of the president Abraham Lincoln at Philosophy Talk . It is a fascinating, informative narrative and analysis of the Man. 
Permit me to say this, somewhat, Abraham Lincoln embodied America’s contradictory life , ideology, and goals. He symbolized, [...]

Review of Being and Event by Alain Badiou

 

Being and Event by Alain Badiou
Both Jean Francois Lyotard and Cornell West hailed Alain Badiou  as one of France’s most original and important contemporary intellectuals and philosophers. They’re perhaps correct! One simply has to read “Being and Event” to see the breadth of Badiou’s intellectuality and the surpassing dimension of his philosophical knowledge. L’Être et l’événement, the original [...]

Review: How To Do Things With Words by J.L. Austin

 

John  Langshaw Austin was a British philosopher with a special interest in  the philosophy of language. His  “How to do Things With Words” is his most influential work,  and perhaps the classic work on “speech acts” theory.   In this little book, a compilation of a series of lectures (the William James Lectures ) given at Harvard [...]