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Encounter
Essay written in about 1978 for a college course at the University of Oregon (Eugene). Unedited from that time. It was the disturbing...
Douglas Groothuis
Sep 12, 20199 min read
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Philosophy of Technology in Six Ideas
As I prowl around bookstores, I find a gaggle of books on managing technology overload. One after another fall of the presses and make...
Douglas Groothuis
Dec 13, 20183 min read
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Kierkegaard on Sin
When I read the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) in the spring of 1976, it opened the doors of myself that eventually lead to...
Douglas Groothuis
Jun 21, 20185 min read
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7 Principles of Technogesis
“If you want to know what water is, don’t ask a fish.” So goes the Chinese proverb. By extension, if you want to understand the strengths...
Douglas Groothuis
Feb 8, 20185 min read
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Is Religion Dangerous?
As a freshman in college, I imbibed a heady brew of modern atheism, served up by Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Nietzsche. Freud...
Douglas Groothuis
Jan 18, 20182 min read
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The PersonalPhilosophyTrainer (PPT)
Always looking for more applications of philosophy to life, I have come up with a sure-fire winner: the PhilosophyPersonalTrainer (or...
Douglas Groothuis
Aug 25, 20153 min read
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The Philosophy of Gender
Ideas have consequences, but few understand how the consequences are rooted in, and flow from, those ideas. Inextricably related issues...
Douglas Groothuis
Jul 2, 20156 min read
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