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Kwagunt: Creek and Canyon
When I was 18 I was fascinated with American Pragmatism and its theory of truth. I devoured the works of William James and Charles Peirce, the founders of that epistemological school (most of them,...
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O Gladsome Light: Thoughts at Epiphany
That God is eternal does not mean he is not also in time. There is no contradiction between the two modes of being; if there were, then there would no way to have temporality in the first place; for,...
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Pulling a Location
The most worldly man I know, brilliant, effervescent, wildly gay (in both senses of the word), generous to a fault, impishly funny, cynical and compassionate, utterly depraved, abandoned in and...
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Should the West Consider Christ’s Victory?
We are pleased to offer another guest post by blogger Mark Citadel. ______________________________ In Gustav Aulén’s 1931 book Christ the Victor, he writes, “the work of Christ is first and foremost a...
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That Hideous Strength
Who has read and remembers That Hideous Strength – of the gigantic oeuvre of CS Lewis, the capstone, masterpiece, and summation – and who has lately followed the news in the alternative media must have...
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Open Thread: Bright Lights Under the Shadow of the Hideous Strength
Orthospherean Dale Nelson commented on my recent post about That Hideous Strength: Interested readers can find my old commentary on That Hideous Strength [at Bruce Charlton’s Notion Club Papers, Bright...
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From Romanticism to Political Correctness: Modernity and Emotional Illiteracy
Below is a link to an article by Richard Cocks in People of Shambhala on the topic of emotions and modernity. From Romanticism to Political Correctness: Modernity and Emotional Illiteracy
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The Reflexive Problem in Analytic Philosophy: Illogical Logicians
Analytic philosophers either accept or regard as perfectly reasonable two philosophical contentions that violate logic and common sense: determinism and the denial of consciousness. Arguing for...
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Scaping Goats is Lots More Fun than Repentance
The more you can attribute blame for some bad thing to others, the less blame you need to shoulder yourself, and the less guilt you then need to suffer. And as guilt lessens, so does the costliness of...
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Gödel’s Theorem (revised)
Kurt Gödel[1] was a Platonist,[2] logician and mathematician who developed the intention of making a profound and lasting impact on philosophical mathematics. His next task was to think of something!...
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CS Lewis is a genius and a prophet: That Hideous Strength continues its uncanny prediction of our present predicaments. Last time around, our adversaries nominated Fairy Hardcastle for the Presidency....
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Synchronicity strikes again, as usual. A week after posting my essay on the resolution – or rather, prevention – of the so called mind/body problem – also known as the Hard Problem of Consciousness –...
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An Introduction to the Thought of Owen Barfield
Owen Barfield was a member of the Inklings, the famous literary group that included J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. Barfield wrote the first “fey” novel that influenced the two other writers to pen...
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