Philosopher and Cultural Critic

Thomas Hibbs

11 articles 2000–2004

Thomas Hibbs is a philosopher and author known for his work on Thomas Aquinas, popular culture, and moral philosophy. He is a distinguished professor of ethics and culture at Baylor University. He contributed essays and reviews to The Weekly Standard covering philosophy, film, theology, and cultural criticism.

Law and Justice

July 21, 2003 · Thomas Hibbs, Magazine, Books and Arts

The First Grace

Seeing Evil

June 9, 2003 · Thomas Hibbs, Magazine, Books and Arts

Evil in Modern Thought

Truth Will Out

April 7, 2003 · Thomas Hibbs, Magazine, Books and Arts

Truth and Truthfulness

Modern Ancients

November 25, 2002 · Thomas Hibbs, Magazine, Books and Arts

Plato's Symposium by Stanley Rosen St. Augustine's, 428 pp., $32 Metaphysics in Ordinary Language by Stanley Rosen St. Augustine's, 302 pp., $24 The Question of Being A Reversal of Heidegger by Stanley Rosen St. Augustine's, 367 pp., $27 The Ancients and the Moderns Rethinking Modernity by Stanley…

The End of Thought

July 15, 2002 · Thomas Hibbs, Magazine, Books and Arts

The Making of a Philosopher My Journey Through Twentieth-Century Philosophy by Colin McGinn HarperCollins, 256 pp., $25.95 COLIN MCGINN is a clever man--the very clever product of that very clever school of British academic thought known as analytic philosophy. His initial impetus for studying…

Stanley Hauerwas's Pacifism

May 13, 2002 · Thomas Hibbs, Magazine, Books and Arts

With the Grain of the Universe The Church's Witness and Natural Theology by Stanley Hauerwas Brazos, 249 pp., $22.99 The Hauerwas Reader edited by John Berkman and Michael G. Cartwright Duke University Press, 744 pp., $27.95 WHAT DO THE POPE, a Mennonite pacifist, and the founder of the…

Calvin and Hobbes

December 24, 2001 · Thomas Hibbs, Magazine, Books and Arts

Warranted Christian Belief by Alvin Plantinga Oxford Universiy Press, 576 pp., $24.95 Thomas Reid and the Story of Epistemology by Nicholas Wolterstorff Cambridge University Press, 627 pp., $54.95 WHAT ACCOUNTS for the surprising upturn of interest in philosophy of religion in major American…

Heat and Light

September 18, 2000 · Thomas S. Hibbs, Magazine, Books and Arts

How did we get to the point where a respected philosopher of science could place Western science on a par with voodoo and argue that truth in science should be determined by democratic vote? Or that a feminist could call Newton's Principia a "rape manual"?

Hopelessly Hoping

April 17, 2000 · Thomas Hibbs, Magazine, Books and Arts

The Real American Dream