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Vico’s Hermeneutical “understanding” of our Humanity—Part 3
Vico’s most important hermeneutical insight is that human beings cannot be explained objectively, they can only be “understood.” The...
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Sorrytaliatory Cycle: “I owe you an apology or a scolding, I can’t tell which.”
Sorrytaliatory Cycle: My mistake—no, yours—no, mine—no . . . “Excuse me, my unfocused words. I was flying blind. If...
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National Service…in Retail???
The education of the whole person requires more than just intellectual development, and service learning and other such programs...
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Hypothesis and the So-What Criterion in Science
Any theory in science is based on certain fundamental assumptions which one agrees to accept provisionally. These assumptions constitute...
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A Revolutionary New View of History and Humanity—Part 2
In this concern of Vico, to demonstrate that even the shadows of the most distant past may prove to...
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One Flew over the Cukoo’s Nest
Our cats woke me up at 5:15 a.m. Sunday…no, check that: at 4:15 a.m Sunday (clock change!). Thought I’d...
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Poser-Proof Practices: Don’t tell–show
You expect people to walk their talk. When they have for a while you gain confidence that they will...
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Critiquing the Creation of Knowledge in the Liberal Arts: An Interdisciplinary Course on Death
For nearly a decade, I regularly start the semester by asking students in my upper-level interdisciplinary general studies seminar...
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Freeman Dyson and Humility Theology: Revised Editions of Some Old Ways of Thinking
It is always an inspiration to read Freeman Dyson. I have learned much from his science, and still more...
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Hope Materializing
©2007 Terry Helwig Hope Materializing, textile 12’ x 7’. The purple cloth Hope Materializing, woven in the aftermath of...