Aristophanes' Speech on the Nature of Love
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Aristophanes professed to open another vein of discourse; he had a mind to praise Love in another way, unlike that of either Pausanias or Eryximachus. Mankind, he said, judging by their neglect of him, have never, as I think, at all understood the...
How Is Philosophy Different from Speculation?
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Below are links to my 9-part Blog on the nature of Philosophy. But let me summarize my position there. Philosop...
Below are links to my 9-part Blog on the nature of Philosophy. But let me summarize my position there. Philosop...
The Two Senses of 'Metaphysics'
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Metaphysics in the Ordinary Sense versus Metaphysics in the Philosophical Sense.
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I want to thank Peacewithin f...
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I want to thank Peacewithin f...
What Is Metaphysics?
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What Is Metaphysics?
(with all due respect to Martin Heidegger—whatever respect is due)
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Metaphysics is a bran...
(with all due respect to Martin Heidegger—whatever respect is due)
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Metaphysics is a bran...
The Purpose of My Blog
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The items I post here have one of two purposes. The first purpose is simply to share things that are important to me or that have had a formative influence on who I am today. The second purpose it to provide what might be called “mini-lectures” on...
Descartes's Ontological Argument for God
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From Meditation V
7. But now if because I can draw from my thought the idea of an object, it follows that all I clearly and distinctly apprehend to pertain to this object, does in truth belong to it, may I not from this derive an argument ...
7. But now if because I can draw from my thought the idea of an object, it follows that all I clearly and distinctly apprehend to pertain to this object, does in truth belong to it, may I not from this derive an argument ...
Descartes's Causal Argument for God's Existence
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22. There only remains, therefore, the idea of God, in which I must consider whether there is anything that cannot be supposed to originate with myself. By the name God, I understand a substance infinite, eternal, immutable], independent, all-know...
Plato's Allegory of the Cave
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Republic, Book VII (Jowett translation)
Behold! human beings living in an underground den, which has a mouth open toward the light and reaching all along the den; here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chai...
Behold! human beings living in an underground den, which has a mouth open toward the light and reaching all along the den; here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chai...
Epiphany III—February 1983
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The first week in February 1983 was the coldest I had ever experienced, with sub-zero temperatures during the daylight hours. The apartment in which I was living, on the second floor of an older house, was very drafty, with no storm windows, and n...
The Declaration of Independence
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I believe there are several conceptual problems in our Declaration of Independence. This declaration opens with the following statement:
” We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed...
” We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed...
