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September 24th, 2012, 12:18 pm
(quote not shown) Perhaps the over-generalizations you have provided could actually be applied to some particular circumstance. I have no belief at all that the catastrophic economic circumstance currently exacerbated by the Obama administration has one cause alone, unless it be something general su...
September 22nd, 2012, 5:09 pm
(quote not shown) The Clinton era termination of Glass-Steagle was one of the essentially destructs of U.S. financial security. There is a fair introductory video on the topic here... youtube.com/watch?v=x0k2PmF-o5Q&fea ... ss-Steagle I believe the Democrat Party is more interested these years i...
September 19th, 2012, 12:37 pm
Slavery is the lowest minimum wage that creates employment. One can always find something for human beings to do if they are cheap enough. For most of the 20th century the middle class learning from the roaring 20s and 1929-3- market crash kept a tighter grip on the national economy. There wasn't to...
August 11th, 2012, 11:14 am
(quote not shown) I believe that original sin has several meaning consequents. The one most meaningful is that human experience would occur within a space-time paradigm with entropy and temporality such as is the Universe. The 'testing'and fall of Adam and Eve brought about birth and suffering as co...
August 6th, 2012, 5:30 pm
(quote not shown) The renormalization context was a referent to original sin. It is possible that the nature of human experience fundamentally changed after that-the Bible seems to indicate that, although one might interpret that context in several ways. God seems to be perfect and a divine economy ...
August 6th, 2012, 4:42 pm
(quote not shown) Thoughts of the my(nd) are necessarily those of an individual. Linguistic phrasing can creating meanings that obscure the reference object. I wasn't being technical. Perhaps it was a third-person way of commenting about Descartes' contemplative process, with the implicit premise th...
August 4th, 2012, 3:57 pm
(quote not shown) I express my interests in writing, and good opinion. I haven't risen to the level of making 'plug in' ads for cultural payback. The unconditional that Tillich writes of is set off the world culture for-itself. It is something comparable to Augustine's City of God/City of Man relati...
August 3rd, 2012, 12:41 pm
Descartes was a professional mercenary and during an extended stay in Bavaria he had an opportunity to use a sauna a lot. Evidently it was a kind of stove that one could get in and bake during the colder winters of the time. In such a peaceful environment he naturally experienced a kind of detachmen...
August 3rd, 2012, 12:03 pm
(quote not shown) Reading Paul Tillich's book 'What is Religion' recently brought a lot of new insights. Of course one can regard Heidegger and Husserl as phenomenologists searching for essents or primal cores of being, yet Tillich wrote that metaphysics is fundamentally a religious act.Tillich diff...
August 1st, 2012, 1:16 pm
Paul Tillich's 1925 essays on religion and the philosophy of religion are worthwhile reading for those that progress in philosophical readings along a normal course of classical and 20th century philosophy inclusive of linguistic and analytical thought. It is implicitly contradictory for the dynamic...
July 20th, 2012, 12:04 pm
If one lies about their definition of evil perhaps there is a reason for that, perhaps not. One may be disingenuous about definitions of course, or even accidentally wrong about a definition (what does soteriology really mean?), however that tends toward engendering false consciousness I believe. J....
June 19th, 2012, 6:42 pm
(quote not shown) I tend to go with the paradigm of Plotinus in The Enneads for describing 'The One'. Fundamentally it is not a paradigm that can be described well at all. I have enjoyed reading Eco's 'Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language' lately. Signs or signals of meanings differ from symbols...
June 17th, 2012, 3:08 pm
(quote not shown) In answer to your question-no, I did not read the post. Unfortunately I haven't had many electrons this June to empower my computer. On the monism into pluralism issue- a 'bump in the night' entails two objects colliding-and a pre-existing pluralism or dualism minimally speaking. W...
June 15th, 2012, 1:00 pm
(quote not shown) I have recently been reading Eco's 'Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language'. It is a book very well worth reading and should be a choice for the book of the month here. The ontology of language (that should be plural) that Quine wrote about is supported well by Eco's description ...
June 9th, 2012, 4:38 pm
I am rather skeptical that a philosophical mandate exists for a Syrian war intervention. War seems to be a practical human activity such as rival colonies of ants do rather than an intelligent, philosophical practice. Arguably U.S. intervention in the First World War led to global destabilization an...
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