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Friday, July 10, 2020

Reality: Experience or Concept?

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Now here's an interesting resource that will keep me occupied for the next six months or so: a whole website obsessively devoted to Voe...
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Thursday, July 09, 2020

No Exodus for You!

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We left off with the idea that history is the flow of presence characterized by the intersection of time and eternity, or vertical and horiz...
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Wednesday, July 08, 2020

Cosmic Plumbing and The Flow of Presence

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Why do ideologues cling to their ideology despite its proven failures? For the same reason mental illness persists despite the fact that it ...
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Monday, July 06, 2020

The Road to Hell is Paved by Saintly Ideologues

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Time enough for a short post consisting of MORE STUFF I CAN USE! We ended in the midst of a discussion on the intrinsic impossibility of h...
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Sunday, July 05, 2020

How Not to be an Idiot

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As mentioned in the previous post, this volume of essays by Voegelin is brimming with allusions and references to my Unwritten but unKnown ...
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Friday, July 03, 2020

Your Choice: Unique Persons or Leftist Ants

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If the left doesn't believe in universally valid truths -- including of course the very concept of a universally binding morality -- the...
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Wednesday, July 01, 2020

The Alliance of People of Color & Karens of Pallor

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Every morning I receive an email briefing from the NY Times. It informs me of their ludicrously tendentious distortion of the news of the da...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2020

The Who & Whom of Persons & Racial Categories

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The subject of race is so vapid and unedifying, no wonder the left never shuts up about it, for it ensures that they always have something v...
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Saturday, June 27, 2020

Radical Anti-Racism

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Perhaps you haven't heard, but slavery is wrong. So too is racism. But why they wrong? By virtue of what principle(s)? I know why th...
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Thursday, June 25, 2020

Volk Lives Matter

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The moment we're living through seems more consequential than can be discerned from the usual media hysteria. Come to think of it, bei...
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Wednesday, June 24, 2020

The De-Nazification of the Left

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We've had two days to meditate on, or stew in, Eliot's advice that the only proper philosophical method is to be very intelligent . ...
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Monday, June 22, 2020

Qualifications of Intelligence

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A short list of the evils to which man is inevitably heir would include -- off the top of my head -- --pain, whether physical, psychologica...
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Sunday, June 21, 2020

The Purpose of It All (or Best Alibi Ever)

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The penultimate chapter of The Politics of Truth addresses the question of whether Eric Voegelin is (was) a conservative. He was one of tho...
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Saturday, June 20, 2020

Man, the Endangered Species

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Alternative title: Science Giveth and Scientism Taketh Away Just a couple of points this morning. We'll begin with an aphorism: An ed...
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Friday, June 19, 2020

Resisting the Resistance

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There are degrees political sickness, from neurosis to psychosis. I suppose there's also political normality, but it's so rare as t...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2020

The Great Awokening, or Satan's Own Spiritual Revival

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Let's try to knock another one off the desk, this time The Politics of Truth , a collection of essays that could scarcely be more timely...
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