MORALITY FOR THE GREEK THINKERS: SOCRATES, PLATO, ARISTOTLE.             The Greek thinkers before these guys – the PreSocratics – were essentially interested in trying to describe the fundamental principles and elements of the world, not much in ethics and such. We do not have any writings by Socrates so we have to trust that Plato…

KIERKEGAARD’S IMAGE OF THE INCARNATION             In my Kierkegaard class we are now dealing with his book Fear and Trembling. In addition to all the interesting and insightful things in this challenging book, near the first Kierkegaard analyses Chapter 22 of the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament. In that chapter his pseudonym Johannes…