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