As a few of you know, I've been taking some psychology courses in what little spare time I have left in each week. This spring, one of my courses is titled History and Modern Systems of Psychology. The textbook is Morton Hunt's lengthy The Story of Psychology. Since the book is available on the Amazon Kindle, I bought it and decided to get a jump on the reading. At 800+ pages, it's ...
Philosophy can be disbursed into many subdivisions of scrutiny (logic, epistemology, socio-political philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, rhetoric), but no such category reposes so much substratum for contention and controversy as that of ontology. And no ontological question has been given more cognizance than that of the existence of God.
But can God veraciously be proven to exist? Can we really put pen to paper and jot down cogent statements of non-controversial premises and come up with ...
"The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants." --- General Omar Bradley, Armistice Day Speech 1948.
Humanity is far from deserving the use of the word “perfection” in its vocabulary. We know not the meaning behind this word, but most certainly we succeed in our attempts to transform it into a twisted, broken visage of whatever truth about it that we were aware. Humanity ...
Euthyphro: a tale of epistemology, a tale of dialectic regard for piety and impiety, a direct and sudden tale to bring a stunning point across. On the surface, this may be one's first impression of Plato's short play. Further examination, however, reveals that not only is Euthyphro much deeper than originally anticipated, but that it's true purpose does not lie in defining piety. Instead it proceeds to define one's own personal ...
“Whoever possesses God in their being, has him in divine manner, and he shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God’s image that they see.”(Platt).
What problem could a religious philosopher possibly solve? What contemporary philosophical problem could Meister Eckhart possibly contribute to the solution of?
I used to think that Atheism was a problem. But Atheism is no more ...
An ouroboros is an ancient Egyptian symbol depicting a snake eating its own tale. It can signify many things in both the ancient and the modern world. One of the significant things that it symbolizes is the circular revolution of life, such as birth and renewal. The ouroboros, much like any cyclical symbol, is often seen as never-ending, a dance among eternal compliments, a game.
Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play ...
"Most fortunately it happens, that since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression of my senses, which obliterates all these chimeras."
Nature has a tendency to heal. She heals both physical wounds and those wounds that deliberately eat away at our hearts and minds. She even ...