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Friday, January 25, 2013

Clear Spheres & Rubish Cubes

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"When two or more independent insights cross," wrote Henri Bergson, "a new philosophy is born." That little gem was p...
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Thursday, January 24, 2013

You Have to be All Man to Know the Whole Truth

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What is reality? First of all, even the ability to pose the question is fraught with implications. No other animal can ask the question. ...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Our Logophobic President

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What a perfectly loathsome and undignified diatribe . Have you ever noticed? Just when you forget all about your craw, a bunch of stuff g...
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Monday, January 21, 2013

One Big Error, Countless Problems

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A few more points from Gilson's Methodical Realism before the bus moves on -- either to the next topic or back to the previous one (whi...
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Friday, January 18, 2013

At Play in the Fields of the Real

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Again, realism begins with the world and with the object. Conversely, all forms of idealism begin with the subject, but we can never "...
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

You Can't Maintain Metaphysical Fitness by Wrestling with Shadows

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This is a post where you may have to read it all the way through in order to know what it is about. Or, it may require additional posts.......
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Wandering the Desert Bewilderness Without Two Brains to Rub Together

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It's beginning to dawn on me that everything about religion means one thing to the left brain, another to the right. And this is becaus...
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Monday, January 14, 2013

Have You Heard the One About the Snake & the Lass?

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In our previous post we suggested that, for the right cerebral hemisphere, "understanding music is perceived as similar to knowing a pe...
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Friday, January 11, 2013

Music of the Hemispheres

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This is interesting, and it sounds intuitively true: "The approach to music," writes McGilchrist , "is like entering into re...
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Wednesday, January 09, 2013

The Right Becomes Left So that Left May Become Right

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(That title is a reference the the early fathers' wisecrack that God becomes man so that man might become God, or divinized.) I have no...
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Tuesday, January 08, 2013

Liberal Fascism and Left Brain Tyranny

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Although there's a fantastic amount of multidisciplinary research in The Master and His Emissary , overall the book is a failure in term...
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Monday, January 07, 2013

The Liberal Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science -- and Reality

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A while ago a 'bat named -- wait for it: Mooney -- wrote a risibly tendentious book by that title, except it was called " The R...
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Friday, December 28, 2012

Message from the Supreme Epopt of Upper Tonga

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It has come to our attention that a commenter requests an open thread. The Cosmocrats of the Luminous Aeon have seen fit to authorize the r...
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Friday, December 14, 2012

If You Strike at God, You'd Better Kill Him

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Guissani provides a little map of our cosmic situation -- a cosmograph, as it were -- and it goes a little something like this: r --> f...
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Thursday, December 13, 2012

A Passion For Eternity

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People feel no need to reason about things to which they are insensate -- which do not move them in some way prior to reasoning about them. ...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

The Cosmic Rebel Without a First Cause

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The Church is in a very ticklish situation, one that I don't envy. That is, how does one preserve, transmit, and hand on this repositor...
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