Month: September 2017

Philia de Humanitas As I continue to hear more about how young people can no longer objectively distinguish between virtual worlds and reality, or at least do not have a significant apprehension of import of the real world as opposed to the virtual world, I thought I should say a bit more about substance.  By …

by David Fleischacker One of the areas that children naturally discover is that of substances or unities.  A substance–to use an ancient definition–is that to which one predicates properties and experiences.  It is that identity or unity to which belong colors and shapes, or that which is involved in activity and change.  With the advent …