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Modern Diplomacy Pensées The Primacy of Intellect On matters of United States foreign and defense policy, it is high time to return to Reason.[1] Why a “return?” During his four years as president, Donald J. Trump created an almost seamless web of policy derelictions and corresponding failures. In this humiliating history of calculated Unreason, Trump’s strategic declensions were the result of both witting dissemblance and outright irrationality.[2]                Natural...

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The Philosophers Magazine What Satire Can Do for Us Dieter Declercq reflects on the value of political parody now that Trump is no longer president Donald Trump was one of the most satirised presidents in American history, and now he’s gone. Do we have satirists to thank? Perhaps, but only in a small way. We misunderstand the nature and value of satire if we think it serves to oust political leaders – or...

The Science In Gambling Friday, February 19, 2021 1:34 AM UTC There is a long relationship between gambling and science. Woven together, mathematics, psychology and science breathe life into a game of chance. Since the Renaissance scientists and mathematicians have earnestly studied the science in gambling and attempted to take luck out of the game, some have been more successful than others, paving the way for the optimists to ...

Philosophy’s most famous wager was proposed by Blaise Pascal: it’s far better to bet on God’s existence than to be an atheist. If you’re right, after death you will be resurrected to enjoy beatitude. If you’re wrong, you die but literally never have time for regrets: God doesn’t exist and neither do you. People have been pointing out problems with Pascal’s wager ever since he made it. We shouldn’t be surprised that President George Vella’s recent wager, on a national unity con...

How to Stop Struggling through Life - Man is not designed to struggle and there’s struggle in your life because you’re not in touch with the greatest glory of life, silence. You’re not willing to embrace the master key and you’re...

Finding Your Soulmate, the Ancient Greek Way February 14, 2021 “Psyche revived by the kiss of Love,” by Antonio Canova, 1787-1793. Credit: Jean-Pol Grandmont/ CC BY-SA 4.0 By Firmin DeBrabander, Professor of Philosophy, Maryland Institute College of Art In the beginning, humans were androgynous. So says Aristophanes in his fantastical account of the origins of love in Plato’s Symposium. Not only did early humans have both sets of sexual organs, Aristophanes reports, but they were outfitte...

You wake one morning in a clearing in the woods. A stream runs off into the trees and in the distance, you see mountains. You have no idea how you got here, or where here is. What do you do? Do you sit down and wait for some passerby to rescue you, or do you set out walking in the direction of the high ground, hoping for a better view and a chance of unraveling this mystery? That sums up the choice that every human is handed at birth: sit tight and survive, or get moving and seek truth? It’s...

Pope Francis at a general audience address in the library of the Apostolic Palace. Photo credits: Vatican Media. Vatican City, Feb 10, 2021 / 04:30 am (CNA).- Pope Francis said on Wednesday that prayer can fortify us as we face the challenges of daily life. Speaking at his general audience on Feb. 10, the pope explained that prayer helps us to see the “infinite grace” that lies beyond the visible world. “And thus, Christian prayer instills an invincible hope in the human heart: whatever e...

Vatican City (CNA) -Speaking at his general audience on Feb. 10, the pope explained that prayer helps us to see the "infinite grace" that lies beyond the visible world.  "And thus, Christian prayer instills an invincible hope in the human heart: whatever experience we touch on our journey, Gods love can turn it into good," he said. In his address, he continued the cycle of catechesis on prayer which he launched in May and resumed in October following nine reflections on healing the world after...