Darwin at 200, The Origin of Species at 150

Ideas like Darwin’s, spread as they do because they are so powerful at explaining the world.

Troy Camplin Ph.D.

Book Review

Denis Dutton, The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution (Bloomsbury Press, New York: 2009), ISBN 978-1-59691-401-8, $25.00

Troy Camplin Ph.D.

Branding the Arts

In fact, Warhol’s Coca-Cola bottles and Campbell’s Soup cans might actually discourage consumption, and not through their alleged statements about ubiquitous images.

J.D. Smith

Two Concepts of Liberty: An Analysis of Berlin's Seminal Essay

Sir Isaiah Berlin, in his 1958 essay and inaugural lecture, "Two Concepts of Liberty," expands on the ideals of liberty that were synthesized and inculcated by earlier political philosophers. The essay initiates and details an outline of an idealized liberty with two distinct branches: positive and negative. Although the essay is a bit controversial, producing such detractors as Charles Taylor, this seminal piece has staying power and can only be enhanced, not nullified.

Henry C. Alphin Jr

Gresham’s Law in the 21^st Century

In our current society, information is the    currency  . . .

Joshua Finnell

Play

                                  2009

It’s very expensive.  An inventor is not a capitalist.

Francis Raven

Poetry

                                 2009

Dawn Corrigan

FREE FROM THE WORLD, FREE IN THE WORLD

The man’s freedom rises from original biological processes. But, the definition and the concrete realization of the freedom have a historic character.  It can also occur that our freedom releases itself completely from whatever determined content. This represents a dogmatic pretence. Hegel takes this risk, defining it “sentimental totality”.  On the contrary, Kant poses the question of subsistence of an unconditionalness a priori, previous and independant from the relationship with the world. Lastly, the modern condition of freedom sends us to the relationship between individual and society.

Andrea Amato