Daily Archives: January 19, 2012

The Upside and the Downside to Christian Conservatives’ Opposition to Newt

A lot of my Christian conservative friends are supporting Rick Santorum over Newt Gingrich in the race for the Republican nomination for President.  They dislike Newt’s history of adultery, while Santorum strikes them as a principled, morally-upstanding conservative.  According to … Continue reading

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Individuality, Community, and Alienation

I finished Texts and Responses.  I’ll use as my starting-point something that Paul Flohr says on page 222: “[He is unable] ‘to accept the natural aloneness of the ego.’  He thus seeks union with the world, but it is ‘refused … Continue reading

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