Freedom and God: The Existential Leap of Faith

Freedom and God: The Existential Leap of Faith

For various reasons, most related to teaching philosophy at St. John’s University, I have been thinking about what we refer to as classics in literature. One day in class last semester, a student announced that he had bought three books by Dostoyevsky: “The Brothers Karamazov,” “Crime and Punishment,” and “The Idiot.” On other occasions, the student, through his comments and questions, had revealed that he was taking his studies very seriously a…

The existential moment we are in

As the world re-entangles and pushes our interdependence to the foreground, we need a new thesis on freedom.