Mt. Sophia Ideas

Earlier this semester I had to give someone some relationship advice. The question of who loved whom — and what exactly love is — was central to our conversation.
Then, a couple weekends back, my sister married a very awesome guy. I naturally had to write them a long philosophical discourse on the nature of relationships [...]

Revolutions seem to be the thing to do recently. In each we see a call for a change in leadership. And with a change in leadership, the people hope, will come a change in the ways their countries are organized.
A country, in a sense, is just a large organization. Fortunately for us Americans, the large organization [...]

Did you know that philosophers rule the world?
Really, they do. (However, the poor things usually don’t get to experience their reign because their philosophies catch on 10 years after they die.)
Every day, you are influenced by what philosophers have philosophized into place for you.
1) How did your doctor tell you about the virus you have? [...]

On Monday, the new semester begins for us college people. Starting a new semester here in the new year. I’ll begin by teaching my students about Descartes, who thought of himself as starting philosophy over. Things were going to be new and different and better, Descartes hoped.
And things definitely were different because of Descartes. Philosophers [...]

Kyle Thorp is a Mt. Sophia graduate, student at Grove City College, and son of Allison Thorp. This post is running concurrently on www.7sistershomeschool.com.

It’s Christmas Eve. For many years this was a day of torturous anticipation for me. I would be waiting eagerly to see what was in those [...]

William James was one of the founders of modern psychology, in addition to being an important philosopher and the brother of novelist Henry James.
In the first chapter of his book, The Varieties of Religious Experience, he writes:
In the end, it had to come to our empiricist criterion: By their fruits ye shall know them, not [...]