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Saturday, August 29, 2009

No God, No Me, No Justice, No Mary Jo

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Let's finish up this chapter on the limits of pure rationalism . By the way, our Peevish Traditionalist commenter points out that Schuo...
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Friday, August 28, 2009

On the Certainty of Doubt and Vision of the Blind

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Over 130 comments yesterday. Which once again proves -- as if it were necessary -- that there's just no end to the sophistries to which...
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Thursday, August 27, 2009

The Business of Isness: What Is Is and Isn't

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Some of the comments yesterday prove that no matter how clearly one says something, a willful mind will see in it what it wishes to see. I ...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

A Critique of the Critique of Pure Reason

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Continuing with Schuon's discussion of rationalism and its defects, he implicitly addresses Kant's belief that we cannot know the th...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Irrational Rationalism, Untrue Truth, and Illiberal Liberty

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Next up in Logic and Transcendence is chapter three, Rationalism Real and Apparent . This will no doubt require more than one post to unp...
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Monday, August 24, 2009

I Know Why the Caged Birdbrain Sings Off-Key

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As we've discussed in the past, what we used to call the Real is now considered by most garden-variety intellectuals as abstract, wherea...
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Sunday, August 23, 2009

Truth and Me: A Love Story

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This is instructive, for "what is a bad man but a good man's teacher?" In a post about the cause of stupidity -- which is obv...
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Saturday, August 22, 2009

Why is There Stupidity?

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Stupidities must come, but woe to the man through whom the stupidity comes! --Petey Why is there stupidity? Why are there trolls? Why is...
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Friday, August 21, 2009

The Interior Logic of Ultimate Reality

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Good news for in-home neuronauts and extreme seekers. There's a new translation of Schuon's religious cult classic, Logic and Trans...
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Thursday, August 20, 2009

You are Charged with Being Guilty of Innocence!

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I tells you what: I just discovered something. It's hard to blog about anything other than what I'm actually thinking about. To t...
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009

On Conserving Change and Changing Mankind

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As I mentioned a couple of days ago, I'm having a little difficulty transitioning from the profane back to the sacred. I wake up in the...
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