Philosophy for Sommeliers
“Philosophy for Sommeliers” isn’t to say that there is an exclusive area of study reserved for those quirky specialists dubbed “Sommeliers,” but rather in the practice of wine service there […]
Author Archives: Steven Dunn
An Update: 2017
This is the first article I’ve written since 2015. I stepped away from writing for a little while to explore different pursuits, deepen understanding and elaborate on personal study. And […]
An Excerpt from Kierkegaard’s ‘Works of Love’ (1847)
That Love Abides. “Love never fails” – it abides. When a child has been gone all day among strangers and thinks he ought to go home but is afraid to […]
G.K. Chesterton on the ‘Blessed Virgin’
If the world wanted what is called a noncontroversial aspect of Christianity, it would probably select Christmas. Yet it is obviously bound up with what is supposed to be a […]
Michael Novak on Nihilism and ‘The Moral Principle’
“I have tested this moral principle and have found it fortifying: Accept the experience of nothingness as a gift, search deep into it, live by its living streams. One thing […]
God and Natural Disasters
Let us consider an instance of antithesis. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) once wrote a book-length treatise entitled Theodicy (1709) which contains his treatment of the problem of evil. The gist […]
Four Metaphysical Principles Regarding Our Knowledge of God
While the question of God’s existence is an important one, this is only one side of the objective/subjective coin. That is, we have asked the (objective) metaphysical question “Does God […]
