Charlie Kirk1:06:21Philosopher. Author. Host of The Firestone Files.
Chris L. Firestone
A Kant scholar who left the ivory tower to write letters to his grandchildren, and to anyone else who still asks the big questions.
- Co-author of In Defense of Kant's Religion, foreword by Nicholas Wolterstorff
- Keynote, University of Notre Dame Center for Philosophy of Religion
- Twenty-five years teaching philosophy at Trinity International University
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Charlie Kirk's Message for High School Students
September 14, 2026 · 46:45 · Episode 55
Charlie Kirk's Message for High School Students
One year to the day after Kirk's death, Dr. Firestone takes off the wristband he wore through Prep Year and gives a room of Gospel Light high schoolers the three points of orientation Kirk lived by: the Bible for the soul, the great books of the Western tradition for the mind, and the founding documents for the body politic. Kant stays at the door; the inheritance and what it costs to accept it are the whole subject.
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Six books on Immanuel Kant, the philosophy of religion, and friendship, from Indiana, Cambridge, Notre Dame, Routledge, and Lexham.
One of the best, if not the best, book that has yet been written in English on Kant's philosophy of religion.
— Robert Gressis, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, on In Defense of Kant's Religion
In Defense of Kant's Religion
2008 · with Jacobs
Kant and Theology at the Boundaries of Reason
2009
Why Does Friendship Matter?
2021 · with Pierce
The Persistence of the Sacred in Modern Thought
2012 · with Jacobs
Kant and the Question of Theology
2017 · with Jacobs, Joiner
Kant and the New Philosophy of Religion
2006 · with Palmquist
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I'm not going to die for whether or not this table or chair exists, but I might die for my dignity or for love or for justice.
— Chris Firestone, Teaching Kids to Think Well
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Not what to think. How to think.
Lectures, debates, chapel talks, and conversations for universities, churches, conferences, and civic groups. Eight talks, from "Everyone Is Wrong About Kant" to "What Dreams Are For."
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