The Philosophy of "As If": A System of the Theoretical, Practical and Religious Fictions of Mankind Tracy Berger Michele Students will focus on Genesis

Students will focus on Genesis 37-50 and learn life-altering truths about God's sovereignty in the midst of adversity

Ayn Rand shows what the theories of Communism mean in practice

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The Philosophy of "As If": A System of the Theoretical, Practical and Religious Fictions of Mankind Tracy Berger Michele Students will focus on GenesisVaihinger shows that thought is primarily a biological function turned into a conscious art. It is an art of adjustment, whose chief instrument is the construction of fictions by which men may manage to live. Thought is to be tested not by correspondence to an objective reality (that fiction is neatly disposed of) nor by its mirroring in consciousness an objective external world. Thought is to be tested by its fruits. The constructions of thought are