Agency and Freedom Nathan Richardson In a previous post, “What Makes Me a ‘Me’?” I described two conflicting assumptions about
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"I Can’t See You When I’m Touching You"
Ways of Knowing Nathan Richardson In a previous post, “What Makes Me a ‘Me’?” I described two conflicting assumptions about
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The Nature of Self Nathan Richardson In a previous post, “There Are No One-ended Sticks,” I quoted Gerald N. Lund
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We live in a very different intellectual climate than those who wrote the scriptures. Our philosophy and our academic climate
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Introduction Nathan Richardson Expect Implications Gerald N. Lund makes an important point about how the various areas of philosophy affect
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Jeffrey Thayne The dictionary defines theocracy as “a system of government by priests claiming a divine commission.â€1 That is, a
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Nathan Richardson In a previous post, “‘Self-evident’ Premises of Science,” I cited six premises listed in the opening essay of
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Jeffrey Thayne We have established in previous posts that governments need authority from God to govern. In the absence of
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Nathan Richardson In the opening essay of the BYU physical science textbook, the authors included a section on some of
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Jeffrey Thayne In my previous two posts (“John Locke and Primal Authority” and “Government by the People“), I have claimed
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