I just finished reading an article in a Higher Education on-line journal. It details how students complained about their professor’s opinions, the professor was fired, and many journalists have taken to writing about how crazy this man’s opinions were, yet they want to fight to protect his right to free speech, and his rights as [...]
I am gearing up for another academic year, I enjoy my job of working with college students–though I must admit I enjoy the summers that allow me to process, to think, to do some personal development, and recharge. As I have been thinking, I have remembered some of the things students said during our meetings [...]
Working at a University, not a year has gone by that a student has not followed the philosophy that anything natural is also inherently “good” and should not be questioned. If something feels natural, or appears to follow the course seen in “nature” then it is right and those feelings are justified as good. This [...]
But though we are not weaker in morality, we are weaker in the knowledge of morality. We are stronger in the knowledge of nature, but weaker in the knowledge of goodness. We know more about what is less than ourselves but less about what is more than ourselves. When we act morally, we are better [...]