Gary C. Gibson - Essays

The passing of Nelson Mandela is another milestone of history such as was experienced by many Americans in the early 1960s when the World ...

Arnold Toynbee, Herbert Spencer and others noted cycles in civilization. I like Toynbee's challenge-response paradigm myself. If histo...

Correction- I cited axiology as = Truth theory when actually axiology equals value theory. Value theory is one excellent field of study. T...

Truth theories are numerous in contemporary philosophy. The ideas of W.V.O. Quine are illuminating on that subject. If truth is confirmat...

Interesting about Dostoyevsky. I believe that Stendhal must have read Tolstoy, taken a look at Dostoyevsky and then written The Red and the...

Tolstoy, the wikipedia relates, was a Christian anarchist. "The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, ...

Since F.D.R. reformed the U.S. economy following the depression the Democrat party has pursued socially egalitarian reforms to better the...