MY INTELLECTUAL BIOGRAPHY

ORIGINS

• Mrs. Smith and my love of reading.
• Mrs. Church and my fears of mathematics.
• Mr. Hacke and my belief in my own intelligence.
• Mr. Stimach and habits of mind.

The role of Christianity and Catholicism

GROWING UP AMERICAN...SORT OF

THE AMERICAN WEST AS INTELLECTUAL LANDSCAPE

DHAHRAN IN MY DREAMS

A NEW SPIRITUAL HOME, PART I

A NEW SPIRITUAL HOME, PART II

MY INTELLECTUAL COMING OF AGE

• Aristotle's Physics, Posterior Analytics, and Nichomachean Ethics
• Marcus Aurelius's Meditations
• Bacon, Newton, Darwin, Einstein
• Plato, Madison, Washington, Locke, Rousseau
• Kant and Hume
• Lao Tzu, Zen, Buddhism, Bushido
• Montessori, Piaget, Dewey

WILDERNESS IN MY IMAGINATION

A LIFE OF PEACE

A TURN AWAY FROM WAR

THE BIG IDEAS

• Capitalism and Free Markets
• Classical and Social Liberalism
• Rule of Law, Federalism, and the Social Contract
• Representative Democracy
• Feminism and Equality
• Evolutionary and Quantum Theory
• Liberation Theology and Monotheism
• Classical Ethics and Biblical Morality
• Naturalism and Conservationism

MY BIG ASSUMPTIONS

• A dynamic and moral universe
• Conservation and Universality
• The transcendent Soul
• Interconnectivity
• The unyielding power of the human spirit and love

THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE

• TOK is the hub around which DP turns
• Not a philosophy course
• A university-level critical thinking and rhetoric concept
• Critical consumers of knowldge