FROM THE FOOTNOTES2PLATO ARCHIVE
Category: Kant
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The Spirit of Integral Poetry: “Waring” the Symbolism of Organism
The Spirit of Integral Poetry: “Waring” the Symbolism of Organism Introduction In the preface of his magisterial account of the evolution of consciousness, The Ever-Present Origin (1985), Jean Gebser warns…
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Archetypal Cosmology Presentation at PCC Forum
A link to the text of my talk HERE.
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The Copernican Odyssey: From Kantian Skepticism to Tarnasian Participation, or from the Dawn of Modern Science to the Wisdom of the Midnight Sun
The following is a rough draft of a presentation I will be giving next week as part of a panel discussion on the philosopher Richard Tarnas’ Archetypal Cosmology. Tarnas’ essay…
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Aesthethics: Loving the Beauty of Goodness
I’m still in the planning phase of my dissertation on the ontology of Imagination, and as such am working to ferret out the most interesting aspects of my chosen site…
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The Divine Function in Whitehead: Not Your Grandpa’s Occasionalism
In my last post in response Bob Woodard/Naught Thought‘s thoughts concerning the ontological fuzziness of process philosophy, I referred to Whitehead as an “occasionalist” without explaining exactly what I meant.…
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Nature in Whitehead, Hegel, and Schelling
In order to correct what I fear may have been an unfair caricature of Hegel presented in some of my posts earlier this year (HERE and HERE) after reading Iain…
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Ecology of Mind, Economy of Play, Energy of Delight
Meaning is infinite because language is indefinitely recursive, because “world” is a word, such that “word” has no world to refer to. Words refer only to themselves, except Yours, your…
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The Ideal Realism of Schelling and Emerson
I have come across a copy of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 1871 lectures at Harvard. They were his last lectures, a sort of summation and final testament of his life’s work.…
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Schelling and the Transcendental Abyss of Nature
“What is essential in science is movement; deprived of this vital principle, its assertions die like fruit taken from the living tree.” –Schelling, The Ages of the World ——————————– The…
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Schelling’s Naturephilosophy and Hegel’s Exclusion of Geology
Will commented on “Schelling’s Geocentric Realism” to defend the position of Nature in Hegel’s Logic from its realist inversion. I wanted to make Iain Hamilton Grant‘s position on the matter…
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Husserl and Schelling, from Phenomenology to Naturephilosophy
A video by emblemOFbeing about Husserl‘s phenomenology as the final resolution of all antithetical schools of philosophy. And my response questioning Husserl’s correlationism and suggesting Schelling’s geocentric realism:
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Whitehead: Aesthetics as First Philosophy
I’ve jumped from Meillassoux‘s After Finitude to reading Steven Shaviro‘s book on Whitehead, Kant, and Deleuze Without Criteria (2009). A few thoughts have occured to me… Whitehead’s philosophy of organism…
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PZ Myers’ will never believe in God
PZ Myers’ blog post: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/10/eight_reasons_you_wont_persuad.php Some excerpts from my comments (beginning around #403): The sort of god PZ has decreed impossible to believe in has little in common with Augustine’s,…
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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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A comment to Hyper Tiling concerning anthropocentrism
You can find Fabio’s blog here: http://hypertiling.wordpress.com/ Fabio, You’ve succeeded in getting me interested in speculative realism and object-oriented philosophy. Kantian skepticism is perhaps the main obstacle I must overcome…
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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…
