Encounter
Essay written in about 1978 for a college course at the University of Oregon (Eugene). Unedited from that time. It was the disturbing...
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Douglas Groothuis
- Dec 13, 2018
- 3 min
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...
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Douglas Groothuis
- Jun 21, 2018
- 5 min
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...
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Douglas Groothuis
- Feb 8, 2018
- 5 min
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...
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Douglas Groothuis
- Jan 18, 2018
- 2 min
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...
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Douglas Groothuis
- Aug 25, 2015
- 3 min
The PersonalPhilosophyTrainer (PPT)
Always looking for more applications of philosophy to life, I have come up with a sure-fire winner: the PhilosophyPersonalTrainer (or...
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Douglas Groothuis
- Jul 2, 2015
- 6 min
The Philosophy of Gender
Ideas have consequences, but few understand how the consequences are rooted in, and flow from, those ideas. Inextricably related issues...
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