One of my favorite blog posts deals with Meister Eckhart and the whole existence/non-existence battle between theologians, philosophers, etc. A few days ago, I received an email from someone who was presenting a similar argument to a professor at a Catholic university and was inquiring about any additional evidence/thoughts backing up Eckhart's conclusions. After a bit of back-and-forth, the last email I sent to him provided what I felt was a solid ...

Everybody loves a good apocalypse meme. That's why the 2012 one is so popular right now. The millennium came and went without even a harrowing Y2K glitch, so we have to hitch our self-destruction and self-loathing onto another upcoming event. 2012 just happens to be that event.

A while back I finished reading Daniel Pinchbeck's 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl. Though I have mixed feeling about the book, the cultural examination was fascinating ...

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 ...

“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 ...