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Brain, Mind, Soul, and Spirit—Unified in Personality
The brain is a physical organ that transcends the machine-like regularities of mechanics, and thereby reveals that...
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Sorry: That Big Dumb Powerful Word
A friend who once lived in England told me that the word sorry is used differently there, that it...
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Tariq Ramadan or Ayaan Hirsi Ali?
The Islamist question, in the forefront of European and American thinking, might be put this way: Should support go...
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Source of Theories
Murray Gell-Mann noted that “A successful new theoretical idea typically alters and extends the existing body of theory to...
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“dumb–almost cosmic stupidity”
I couldn’t agree more with this assessment by Glenn T. Miller, academic dean and professor of ecclesiastical history at...
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The Encounter with History as Extension of the Self—Part 2
It does indeed take about half of one’s lifetime before one becomes aware that our existential condition is, to...
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The Encounter with History as Extension of the Self—Part 1
In viewing humanity in its historicity as the primary subject of philosophy, Vico had in mind something very similar...
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The Doctrines and Dogmas of Science
When a hypothesis is introduced, and it is accepted without any consideration of or regard to its consequences, it...
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The Top 100 Effects of Global Warming
From the Center for American Progress, scary stuff. Among my favorites: Say Goodbye to Discoveries of Sharks That Can...
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Peripatetic Potpouri
Slavoj éiûek reminds us that resistance is not futile (in the London Review of Books): The lesson here is...