Nicholas Wolterstorff's calm, careful, humble response to my posts might make me look like an overly pugilistic polemicist. But I…
“Bob and weave”: A response to Wolterstorff
philosophy
Secular accounts: A response to Chambers
I want to re-emphasize the structure of my discussion about secular accounts of human rights. The project of trying to…
First things
Everywhere in Justice Wolterstorff's interest in theological and philosophical history collides with his desire for syllogism, or for causal necessity,…
The paucity of secularism?
It seems to me that what worries Wolterstorff about "right order" theories of justice (i.e., communitarian accounts) is that they…
Not a foundation but a raft
Why should we conclude that God's love for human beings takes the form of attachment love as opposed, for instance,…
Justice and theism
The central claim of Nicholas Wolsterstorff's Justice: Rights and Wrongs is that justice is based on natural human rights that inhere…
Akbar Ganji in conversation with Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor: If the human relation to religion and to God is not as shallow as the mainstream theory thinks,…
Heraclitean spirituality: divine conflict
From the vertiginous summit of his virtue, and against all evidence to the contrary, Heraclitus informs us that "it is…
Heraclitean spirituality: ephemeral selves
"That it cannot break time and time's greed---that is the will's loneliest misery." Thus spoke Zarathustra. To try to escape…
Immanent spirituality
A worthy touchstone to arbitrate between worldviews immanent and transcendent is the désir d'éternité, the "desire to gather together the…