In his autobiography Fulton Sheen devotes a chapter to the noble task of teaching. I present his suggestions for this profession and provide some commentaries.
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Rules and regulations are infiltrating our workplaces and everyday lives. I respond by saying that the human spirit need risk and adventure to flourish.
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Thomas Aquinas is notoriously difficult to understand for beginners in philosophy/theology. In this post I give a few tips to help you get through the beginning phase of getting acquainted with this thinker.
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Scientists are trying hard to give AI another elusive element: common sense. But how can we bequeath something if we’re slowly losing it ourselves?
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In this post I look at the fact that AI is and always will be fundamentally unintelligent because it lacks a core component: a soul. We are unique creatures. The soul gives us understanding and free will – something that we cannot give to machines.
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My review: I read this book after noting that Alain de Botton is a very interesting person. He made this apparent to me in his book entitled “The Architecture of Happiness”. When I saw “Religion for Atheists” on the shelf, I just had to see what a person like Alain had to say about religion
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My review: If only everybody wrote as lucidly and beautifully as Benedict. What rare qualities for an academic. His style is simply sublime, whether you agree with him or not. I, on my part, do agree with him. As benedict writes, what he is presenting in this book is his “personal search ‘for the face
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My Review: I detest receiving books as gifts in the workplace. Such books are usually of the soulless sort, the sort that are written around some lifeless corporate motto that is supposed to inspire a new employee to work overtime when needed. So, when I walked into my first day at work at Carnegie Mellon
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My review: I read this book just coming off reading Newman’s Apologia Pro Vita Sua. And I’m glad I did this because otherwise I would not have been able to appreciate enough what Ian Ker is trying to convey through his work: that Newman’s theology was very influential at Vatican II and how it should still be
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There is a fundamental difference between humans and machines. Jack Ma, Chinese business magnate, co-founder of Alibaba, 35th richest man in the world, once said (in his half-broken English): Computers only have chips, men have the heart. It’s the heart where the wisdom comes from. Forgive me if I also quote myself on this topic:
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