Author: Jeffrey Thayne

Jeffrey Thayne Early Greek philosophers saw reason as the conduit through which human beings could access the unchanging certainties of

Jeffrey Thayne Kelsen presented what he called the “Pure Theory of Law.” He believed that his theory was free from

Jeffrey Thayne Legal realists present a very interesting and compelling claim: what qualifies as law is not what legislators enact,

Jeffrey Thayne According to Letwin, Thomas Aquinas’s work was designed to reconcile scriptural truth with the philosophy of Aristotle. The

George Kelly’s Theory of Personality, Part 1 Jeffrey Thayne I enjoy studying and reading George Kelly’s ideas, and many of

Jeffrey Thayne Plato introduced an important tension in the history of the philosophy of law: Is law a human invention,

Jeffrey Thayne 4. The Relationship between Sin and Suffering In an earlier post, I presented the traditional formulation of the

Jeffrey Thayne 3. Pain that Results from Non-moral Causes Much of human suffering simply cannot be attributed to moral agency;

Jeffrey Thayne 2. Pain that Results from Sin In the first post of this series, I discussed how the existence

Jeffrey Thayne Truman Madsen, a Latter-day Saint and a philosopher, said that for some “the most staggering objection to belief