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Friday, April 24, 2015

Truth and "Truth," Freedom and "Freedom"

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Yesterday we spoke of how the ultimate reality is being-for, being-from, and being-with, AKA Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. But modernity is...
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Thursday, April 23, 2015

You Can Learn a Lot from a Baby

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Picking up exactly where we left off yesterday, I would put it this way: "I" and "we" are never found apart, and yet, t...
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Adam & Eve & Atom & Wave

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Today's post was cut short in its prime by an unexpectedly early appointment. In a comment yesterday Van mentioned the Greek contribu...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Let Us Make Man in Our Image

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Yesterday we alluded to Winnicott's crack that "there is no such thing as an infant," which is very much an analogue of the mo...
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Monday, April 20, 2015

The Cosmic Baby and the Wholly (M)Other

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Some of you may remember my take on psychogenesis -- i.e., the emergence, or better, presence , of mind -- found on pp. 109-123 of the bʘʘk ...
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Thursday, April 16, 2015

The Love of Science and the Science of Love

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Next up in Schindler , The Sanctity of the Intellectual Life . Yes, sanctity , without which the intellectual life is not even worthless, ...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

God Is Dead, and So Is This Sentence

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This next chapter in Schindler is called On the Meaning of the Death of God in the Academy , and it's a corker. He starts with the god...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015

What Does Meaninglessness Mean?

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"Unless our language signifies something definite and intelligible," writes Schindler , "we can hardly consider with seriousn...
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Monday, April 13, 2015

Freedomism and Slavery

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For Schindler , our cultural death spiral -- or plunge into the culture of death -- has to do with an implicit and a priori acceptance of t...
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Friday, April 10, 2015

You Complete Me!

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The next chapter in Heart of the World is called Saving the Achievements of Liberalism . Funny how the left talks about the fatal contradi...
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Thursday, April 09, 2015

Bombs Away!

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I'm still struggling, if that's the right word, to assimilate all the truth bombs tucked away inside Heart of the World, Center of t...
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Wednesday, April 08, 2015

We Don't Need Your Stinking Creativity!

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Every once in awhile I do find myself saying to myself: why only eight comments? That was solid metaphysical entertainment! Two nights ag...
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Tuesday, April 07, 2015

I Think Therefore I Am, or Maybe I'm Just a Little Oxygen Deprived

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Now, when we say that the ultimate order of the cosmos is Love, the irony is that the modern materialist is the one who is anthropomorphizin...
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Monday, April 06, 2015

You Are Ordered to Love!

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This is the sort of idea that I would have once considered hopelessly sappy -- maybe not even sappy -- but now believe to be not only truth...
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Sunday, April 05, 2015

In the Bigending

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"No one is witness to the birth of a world. No one knows how the night of that Saturday's hell was transformed into the light of t...
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Friday, April 03, 2015

Mind-Matter Dualism and Incarnational Trialism

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Come to think of it, we can't blame Descartes for everything . After all, there's the rest of the world. It has always been a trai...
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Thursday, April 02, 2015

Abstractions, Nightmares, and the Frustrated Gods of the Left

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While the old brain is warming up, let's review. Yesterday we figured out that Descartes has been ruining everybody's lives and eat...
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