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Category Archives: Philosophy
Sophia, the Wisdom of God
He revived in our Christian consciousness ancient and eternal truths, but under new names: the fundamental truth about collective essence of the World Soul and the consummate truth about the life of the dead. Continue reading
The Emptiness of Meaning
Platonic realism recognizes universal ideas, their appearance in the world, their knowability, and their expressibility. Continue reading
Buridan’s Donkey
A free choice is one made by the conscious subject or person. The free person knows the good and acts on it. That is our real and true nature. Freedom, therefore, is to act in accordance with our true nature. Continue reading
In Defense of Descartes
One thing that struck me about Descartes, and I’ve remembered it my entire life, was that he was allowed to lie in bed in the morning. He retained that habit throughout his life as he believed it was “conducive to intellectual profit and comfort.” I’ve never had that luxury until the last dozen years or so. Since I am now blessed with insomnia, I awaken early in the morning. I just simply lie still with nothing but my thoughts and prayers. Every now and then a revelation comes to me and a post is born. Continue reading
Consciousness Explained
There is no point being concerned about conscious experience, although everyone is. All your pains, anxiety, depression, fears, and so on, do not matter for the world process. Neither do your joys, pleasures, and so on. They are merely epiphenomena of biological processes. That view is eerily reminiscent of those Gnostic sects that believed we were created by an evil demiurge. The Demiurge trapped our consciousnesses in a world of matter, with no ability to escape. We are doomed to suffer in matter, yet unable to do anything about it.
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Participation in the World Process
The world is represented in consciousness which may alter over time. Continue reading
Spinoza and Einstein
There is a meme going around social media based on the alleged philosophical views of Spinoza. Moreover, the claim is reinforced by reference to Einstein’s approval of Spinoza. The text is ridiculous, but that hasn’t stop anyone from repeating it verbatim. Continue reading
Formal, Organic, and Moral Logic
Moral logic requires the Reality of the Self, the Reality of God, the Reality of Moral Freedom, and the Reality of the Immortality of the Soul Continue reading
The Third Ring of Saturn
George Santayana is the third of the Saturnine philosophers, following Spinoza and Schopenhauer. Although all three have a similar understanding of the Manifest world, the differ on how to express the Unseen. By dint of human effort, they rise to the top of the Visible world and point their mental telescopes at the sky. There they find the secret sun, which shines so bright, that its light hides all the lesser lights of the Visible World.
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