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The Foolish Philosophy Newsletter

With The Foolish Philosophy Newsletter, I want to bring philosophy down to a human level so that anyone can understand what these “big thinkers” really think. Then it’ll be clear that their worldly wisdom is just foolish philosophy—and that only “the fool says there is no God” (Ps. 14:10).

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The Survival Lottery

John Harris tries to defend the idea of using an advanced computer that chooses people at random for doctors to kill, so the doctors can use those organs to save other lives (1975, p. 261). To many, a “survival lottery” will sound Orwellian, almost like a world with artificial intelligence gone terribly wrong. But, to…

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Peter Singer: Luxury is Murder

A train is rolling down a set of tracks, and it is on its way to hit an innocent little girl. For some reason (a very odd reason, indeed), Bob’s Bugatti is on another set of tracks, and Bob alone has the power to use the switch to divert the train away from the child…

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Essays

The Difference Between Formal and Informal Imperialism

With the course of history, some nations have grown strong; others have grown weak. And, in a social Darwinian sense, the “fittest” nations have survived and consumed the others. But that domination never lasts forever. As history shows, every empire eventually falls. Like dogs, they grow old, become weak, and then die.

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A Very Small Price

Today, some people seem to have borderline sympathy for Hitler, seeing him as a deliverer to the German people following the impossibly high reparations imposed on them post-WWI. However, sympathy for the German people can become seriously misplaced when it evolves into sympathy for Hitler and his policies. After all, there is a tremendous difference…

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Lenin, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Soviet Union

Discontent was growing in Russia, and poverty and the Tsar’s incompetence only worsened the issue. A parliament, the Duma, was established in 1905 to Westernize Russia and make it more democratic. Still, Tsar Nicholas II held absolute de facto control over the Russian government. The heavy cost of WW1 continued to mount pressures domestically as…

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