Living in a thermodynamic universe suggests that the best format for living is through energy conservation and that introduces us to symmetry as a natural...
Action leads to faith. Nature asserts herself. There is a limit even to force. The freedom of each will attracts forces of antagonism. Repression of...
Published online 13 January 2009 | 457, 245 (2009) | doi:10.1038/457245a Brain imaging studies under fire Social neuroscientists criticized for exaggerating...
Choice is utterly real, one of the forms taken by freedom of the will. I choose to go to bed. When repeatedly suffering from insomnia, the one who chooses...
Jung was just one of the way out psychologists. My undergrad school boasted Msgr James Gannon.He wrote a noted study of the sex life of the mountain...
Yesterday the internet went down, It seemed like the bad old days when many posts would just vanish into the void.Today it is raining but not snowing and...
As I read that universities are cutting more and more courses, I have been contemplating what we expect of education in terms of its role in shaping future...
As I never set out to mislead or deceive, unless by rapid spontaneous instinct motivated by the passion to keep hidden what belongs to the sacred, and since in...
Before I embark on the formidable challenge of explanation and response that follows from yesterday's posts, I'ld like to offer a few paragraphs from an...
~ A psychological observation on the love of boys in antiquity. The reason pederasty was so common in antiquity and actually not condemned was probably due to...
Wil, Hoping that this will be an opportune moment to offer a clarifying explanation, concerning recent failure to understand one another's line of thought. ...
I intend by the concept, humanism, an exclusionary theory which treats with a lesser respect, intellectually and in various other ways, any who do not renounce...
Mary Jo, It's natural, of course, for different areas of memory to come and go; sometimes, decades pass without retrieval of a particular image or episode....
LOTTERY in the end we hoped that if i drew a pentacle a waxing gibbous the relevant sign of the zodiac and spread the tarot all might be well that the most...
Camus. Does he not think like a Frenchman? An artist. To suppose the common people presume guilt in a man for the wretched conditions in which he languishes...
Anyone like to offer further suggestions on the diagnosis of dead philosophers? And then there's the question of political nomenclature. The abuse of the Greek...
Existentialism (I capitalize the word to mean the specific philosophical genre) does not advocate subjectivity-qua-subjectivity, any more than it equates all...
ok, so i have been influenced in a way that affects profoundly my perception of the Nooist project. if i am an absolute subjective truth, what could that mean?...
How authentic is the term, 'existentialism', itself? Just a question. My idea of philosophy. I want to live, and do not believe that anyone can accurately...
Authenticity was eventually de-emphasized in the writing and lives of JPS and SdB on the bases of contingency and change. I contend the common good (the...
Wil, If you really were a lawyer, I would fire you. As it is, there should be no quarrel between an honourable Aristotelian and an admirer of the noble...
The last two generally accepted existential philosophers were Albert Camus and Jean Paul Sartre. They finished their allotted terms nearly sixty years ago. I...
Existential philosophy is dynamic, subjective. To tell it in the form of a personal story, or pseudonymously, are just two possible approaches. I am not...
You heard it here first. Now, who wants to direct the film? What I am trying to tell you is, the media understands. Or some of it does. Unpaid Reporter...
As i show signs of regaining more mental function, this evening i would like to clarify some points in recent messages and to respond to posts that i have...
Not "Huit Clos", surely? Why don't you read us some poetry? That sounds physically impossible. Transfer to a hospital. Type an extract, and ask the nurse to...
