Devin Cobert’s Reviews > Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview > Status Update

I’ve finished the part on ethics, very well written and easy to follow. Helped clarify my ethics and went over a variety of ethical systems including relativism vs Absolutism and clarified tolerance as a Absolutist only virtue, the bad theory of ethical egoism, explored utilitarianism, and finally went over deontological and virtue ethics and then over ways to synthesize the theories together.

Finished the section on the Philosophy of science, the Authors explain the various interpretations of scientific truth and explain how that can be reconciled to faith. Explain how religious truth claims can be inside a scientific theory. Slam dunk Scientism, explain theistic vs naturalistic science methods. They finally explain how an A theory of time is reconciled with Lorensian relativity.

Half Way! Today I’ve read to the end of the Mind-Body problem. Gone through free will and determinism, and continuity of personal identity through time. This book is very dense for someone with only vague ideas of philosophy, and I couldn’t recommended it to someone new to philosophy but it has been really good.

We’ve gone through much philosophical discussion
Finished truth, touched on epistemology, justification, reason, knowledge, truth, skepticism, postmodernism, and the burden of evidence needed for knowledge. Now I’m in metaphysics we’ve discussed naturalism vs ontology, existence, identity, properties, substances, and now I’m on the Mind-Body problem dualism vs physicalist.
Very dense book but very important