The following inquiry came from a young man in prison. I get the same one from students.
I am drastically shortening the following letter from a reader.
Query:
I have been wondering about self-evident first principles. They can’t be proven, because you can’t deduce them from other truths. So what makes them true and self-evident?
Query:
The sense that I might die really has me questioning my faith and my certainty of heaven.
I wasn’t afraid when I was a Protestant, believing that “once saved always saved.” I remember the freedom and peace I felt knowing that it was a done deal.
The author of a book on why most kids don’t need to go to college was on television explaining that “most students don't need things like liberal arts or gender studies.”
There he lost me.
Query:
In the Speculum Astronomiae, one of the works attributed to Albertus Magnus, who was one of Thomas Aquinas’s teachers, Albert argues that astrology can perfect free will. I take this to mean that it’s good to go with the flow. My question is, at what point does an astrologer interfere with the will of God?
Query:
If you have any advice at all for someone wanting to pursue a PhD and potentially become a humanities teacher or professor, I'd love to hear it. I know there aren’t many job openings in the humanities.
