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A Social Philosopher
Ideas Have Consequences
Ideas Have Consequences
I am an educator, scholar, speaker, and writer. I teach subjects related to philosophy, religious studies, and value theory. As a social philosopher, I use multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary methodologies to engage aesthetic, ethical, existential, and religious questions and problems.
Ideas Have Consequences
Ideas Have Consequences
Ideas Have Consequences
Loosely describing history as the outworking of ideas in society, my research lies at the intersection of aesthetics, ethics, religious studies, and social constructionism. Ideas can be powerful. They shape all of us. Given the riches found in the Liberal Arts Tradition, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary methods are utilized to addr
Loosely describing history as the outworking of ideas in society, my research lies at the intersection of aesthetics, ethics, religious studies, and social constructionism. Ideas can be powerful. They shape all of us. Given the riches found in the Liberal Arts Tradition, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary methods are utilized to address intersectional challenges and problems we are facing in today's world for the possibility of a better future.
Central Topics
Ideas Have Consequences
Central Topics
- Human cruelty, evil, and suffering
- The power of the arts to affect personal and social change and mirror society
- Our bilateral relationship to our natural and social environments
- Social reality maintenance and religious worldviews, claims, values, and practices
- Critical thinking skills for first-generation students
- Existential thought in an im
- Human cruelty, evil, and suffering
- The power of the arts to affect personal and social change and mirror society
- Our bilateral relationship to our natural and social environments
- Social reality maintenance and religious worldviews, claims, values, and practices
- Critical thinking skills for first-generation students
- Existential thought in an image-driven society
- Best practices for the elimination of structural and systemic barriers against equality and other social ills in society.
- How to improve aesthetic experiences in daily living.
- Hermeneutics: the art and science of interpretation.
- Ennobling human dignity for all people
- Worldview analysis, cognitive and existential dissonance, & worldview fracturing
- Cultural, historical, geographical, and religious sites in Israel and other nations in the Middle East
- The educational, moral, and social uses of the arts in society.
- Philosophy of Blaise Pascal.
- All things related to C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the power of the imagination.
- Environmental Ethics
- Philosophy & Sociology of Religion.
- Systematic Theology
- Worldview comparative analysis (religious and non-religious)