The Poignant Bucket List
It's interesting how seemingly casual, light-hearted conversations can sometimes take on lives of their own and wind up in places that were never intended. I suppose it happens often enough to be no great...
People Who are Lost That Don’t Know They’re Lost…a Teaching
If the shoe fits, this qualifies as a “teaching”…for those under 55.
The situation both American history finds itself in is one which my generation can do little about except to issue a heads-up and...
Does Science Understand Transcendence?
In 2016 I published an essay "Darwin Agrees with God About Man's Thirst for Liberty" and then in 2019 modified it and published it here at Unwashed Philosophy. Now, with a broader theme to...
The Post-COVID Decalogues: Part IV
God told the prophet, Samuel, this is what would happen if the Israelites demanded, and anointed for themselves, a king to lead them. He wasn't wrong.
Delba Wintrop’s “Aristotle: Democracy and Political Science: From Claremont Review of Books
(This is an essay by Paul Ludwig in the Claremont Institute's Review of Books Spring 2020, entitled "Public Spiritedness". about Delba Wintrop's posthumously published Aristotle: Democracy and Political Science. She passed away in 2006. I have long...
The Post-COVID Decalogues: Part III
Such is the nature of our species that no Panacea can ever be fully attained but only pursued so long as the exercise of our free will is not compromised.
The Post-COVID Decalogues: Part II
When the rights of some can supersede the rights of others or can be deemed more equal than the equal rights of others, and everyone and no one has any rights all at the same time, humanity and civilization will cease to exist.
The Post-COVID Decalogues: Part I
It seems that the more men fight to be free of their chains of bondage the more tightly they want those chains clasped around their throats.
Science versus God, Who Will Win?
Has anyone been able to explain "how" the ancient Egyptians built the Pyramids when most of the engineering skills they would have been required would not be discovered for millennia? Even the mathematics that would...
The Hero in Nature, and the Pagan Ideal of Good
In 1840 Thomas Carlyle gave a series of lectures in London about "Heroes and Hero-Worship". I'm trying to condense some of them into modern easy-to-read English, for they touch on several subjects important to America today, but...
