The citizen had no freedom of religion; either he participated in the religion of the city or he was banished. The hierarchy of family, tribe and city introduced the idea of a wider and wider influence of the gods, but the knowledge of the one god had been lost. Philosophers … Continue reading
Category Archives: Paleoconservative
Good Government
This is a thought experiment based on Rosenstock-Huessy‘s comments in I Am an Impure Thinker. Summarized, they are to the effect that the modern world is a place that likes to “divide time, & conquer space”. Hence our obsession with speed and time, as if we were racing against death. … Continue reading
Intelligent Design and Realism
A couple of years ago I participated in an on-line discussion on the web site of the International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design (ISCID) . The host was a philosopher (Del Ratzsch) who had just published a good book on Intelligent Design from a philosophical, not scientific, perspective. I … Continue reading
The Real Objection to Intelligent Design
Intelligent Design, in the broadest sense of the term, is the methodological principle that causation may be the result of the intention of an intelligent agent. At first glance it is difficult to understand why that should be controversial. In everyday life, we use that principle all the time. For … Continue reading