FROM THE FOOTNOTES2PLATO ARCHIVE
Category: Hegel
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Consciousness: The Holy Grail of Neuroscience
The following is a video response I posted on YouTube to a blog post by Steve Ramirez about consciousness and neuroscience. He writes the following: Matthew Segall, known popularly…
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My Notes on Jonael Schickler’s “Metaphysics as Christology”
The following are my notes on Jonael Schickler’s Metaphysics as Christology: An Odyssey of the Self from Kant and Hegel to Steiner. Introduction Steiner’s esoteric metaphysics presents a potential resolution…
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Self-consciousness and Philosophy
“You, all-powerful, are my all, at one with me before I can be at one with you.” –St. Augustine (Confessions). Self-consciousness is that with which I must begin… but I…
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Jonael Schickler, Christology, and Rudolf Steiner
So the book arrived today: Schickler’s dissertation, “Metaphysics as Christology: An Odyssey of the Self from Kant and Hegel to Steiner.” The author’s argument is as optimistic and uplifting as…
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The Role of Imagination in Speculative Philosophy
The Role of Imagination in Speculative Philosophy “[Imagination] is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And Reason in her most exalted mood.” –William Wordsworth,…
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Our Planetary Moment: A Journey Through Cosmic Time
Setting the Stage There were no eyes to see it happen, and even if there were, there was not yet any light for them to see, nor even any space…
