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Friday, January 23, 2015

Beauty and Sadness

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Let's see if we can extract any more nuggets of joy from Schopenhauer's manifesto of melancholia. Here's some good news: ...
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Thursday, January 22, 2015

Cosmic Rhythm, Divine Harmony, Planetary Funkmanship, and the Prodigal Melody

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This will be a transitional post, since Petey has not yet informed me of the updated bus schedule. I've picked a subject more or less o...
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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

The Past: An Interesting Place to Visit, But I Wouldn't Want to Live There

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Let's race through the last 100 pages of Inventing the Individual in order to mine any final insights. Insights into what? Into how...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

The Great Disentangling

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I'd like to wrap up Inventing the Individual before moving on. One theme that emerges from the book is that while it took centuries fo...
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Monday, January 19, 2015

We All Worship the Same God, We Just Agree Different

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I award this post the Raccoon Squeal of Approval, and declare it to be nihil bobstat , that is, vaguely plausible and free of anything Bob ...
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Friday, January 16, 2015

Liberal Distinctions and Leftist Conflations

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One thing that comes through in Inventing the Individual is how the so-called middle ages ushered in so many vital cognitive distinctions t...
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Thursday, January 15, 2015

If You're Charlie Hebdo, How Come You're Not Rupert Murdoch?

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New principles lead to new uprisings (to deploy one of the left's favorite buzzwords). This is because the mind must first rise up to a...
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Journeying Down and In with God

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It is possible that this post will come to an abrupt end, depending upon whether or not I have to go into the office, which is yet to be det...
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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Disinventing the Individual: You Have No Right to Reality!

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Do we have a right to live in reality? For most of human history, the answer has been no, in the sense that people have been forced to live...
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Monday, January 12, 2015

Death Wins the Battle, Not the War

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Acknowledging at the outset that words fail... Plus, being an essentially lighthearted blog, we are not well equipped to deal with tragedy ...
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Friday, January 09, 2015

The Cure for Living in the Comfort of Your Own Delusions

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As mentioned yesterday, primitive forms of thought are more concrete and less symbolic. While there are still symbols, they are understood ...
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Thursday, January 08, 2015

Are Islamic Terrorists Crazy, Evil, or Developmentally Arrested?

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I know. Why pick one? But is there a specific psychological mode or mechanism that provokes a man to murder because the victim drew a pic...
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Wednesday, January 07, 2015

Discovering New Worlds within Worlds

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"Every set of beliefs," writes Siedentop , "introduces its own logic and its own constraints." Secular types imagine ...
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Tuesday, January 06, 2015

Conservative Progress and Progressive Decay

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Yesterday we had just begun discussing how our basic assumptions open or close certain avenues of thought, before being hijacked by that lon...
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