As a few of you know, I've been taking some psychology courses in what little spare time I have left in each week. This spring, one of my courses is titled History and Modern Systems of Psychology. The textbook is Morton Hunt's lengthy The Story of Psychology. Since the book is available on the Amazon Kindle, I bought it and decided to get a jump on the reading. At 800+ pages, it's ...

Philosophy can be disbursed into many subdivisions of scrutiny (logic, epistemology, socio-political philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, rhetoric), but no such category reposes so much substratum for contention and controversy as that of ontology. And no ontological question has been given more cognizance than that of the existence of God.

But can God veraciously be proven to exist? Can we really put pen to paper and jot down cogent statements of non-controversial premises and come up with ...

"Most fortunately it happens, that since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression of my senses, which obliterates all these chimeras."

Nature has a tendency to heal. She heals both physical wounds and those wounds that deliberately eat away at our hearts and minds. She even ...