By Peter Kreeft Of all the questions the human mind can ask, three are of ultimate importance: What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? The three questions correspond to the three “theological virtues” of faith, charity, and hope. Faith in God’s word is the Christian answer to “What can I […]
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What if your mind is hungry, but not particularly literate? “Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance,” Isaac Watts advised his readers in his self-education treatise Improvement of the Mind (published in 1741). “Impress your mind with a deep and painful sense of the low and imperfect degrees of your present knowledge.” Today, as in Watts’ time, intelligent […]