Platonic realism recognizes universal ideas, their appearance in the world, their knowability, and their expressibility. Continue reading
Category Archives: Idealism
The Temptation of the Absolute
Once thought has attained the Absolute, it sees religion as simply an appearance of the Absolute. However, if you accept a version of panpsychism, then the Absolute is not simply an object of thought. It, too, must be conscious and have a Mind, i.e., it is also a subject. Continue reading
Mind and Cosmos
Being a review of Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False, by Thomas Nagel. A couple of weeks ago I watched the notorious atheist and Darwinist Richard Dawkins interviewed by a non-descript host on a cable news network. Since the context was a … Continue reading
The God of the Metaphysicians
The goal of true philosophy is knowledge of the whole. Continue reading
Social Surgery
Does society have the right to determine its genetic future? An anti-Christian philosopher and a prominent Christian theologian consider the issue. Continue reading
Hermann Keyserling – Part 2
This is the second and final installment of Julius Evola‘s commentary on Hermann Keyserling from Saggi sull’Idealismo Magico. Evola refers to Keyserling’s “brilliant interpretation of the function of meaning, according to which understanding is removed from the rational and peripheral plane and compenetrated with the principle of deep self-realization and … Continue reading
Hermann Keyserling – Part 1
The key to Keyserling’s views is the phenomenon of understanding. It is essentially a point of spontaneity, freedom, and interiority. Continue reading
Philosophy Around the World
Although Keyserling appreciates the wisdom of the East, believing it to be superior to the West, he sees them as unsuitable for practical life. Europeans strive to manifest their ideals in the physical world. Continue reading
Some Aspects of the Traditional Medical World View: The Demiourgos-Physician
the worldview and practice of traditional medicine studies, contemplates, and actively harmonizes each term of the “Great Triad”, curing and ensuring health, while taking the body as “departure point” for the realization of cosmological and metaphysical Truth. Continue reading
Numbers According to Iamblichus
Plato said that no one could be a philosopher who had not studied mathematics. Undoubtedly, this is partially a reference to the Pythagoreans. Having been a mathematical dunce until college (although not innumerate entirely), this is part of my penance, to work through Iamblichus’ treatise. Luckily, this work supplies a … Continue reading