Teilhard and Steiner: Cosmogenesis in light of Anthroposophy
Teilhard and Steiner: Cosmogenesis in light of Anthroposophy Introduction: As Above, So Below The human is a spiritual being of universal significance. If my reader lacks the courage required for...
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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 his own...
View ArticleNotes from chapters 1-5 on Schickler’s “Metaphyics 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. I figured I’d post them to give inquiring minds a taste of the ideas...
View ArticleThe Spirit of Philosophy
I am passionate about philosophy not because I desire answers to arbitrary questions or explanations of abstract problems. My passion arises because life, as given–as it at first appears to my everyday...
View ArticleReligion and the Modern World: Towards a Naturalistic Panentheism
Religion and the Modern World: Towards a Naturalistic Panentheism “Dear people, let the flower in the meadow show you how to please God and be beautiful at the same time. —The rose does not ask why. It...
View ArticleTowards a Christological Realism: Thinking the Correlation with Teilhard and...
Preface Quentin Meillassoux‘s lucid text, After Finitude (2008), comes at a time when Continental philosophy finds itself engaging more closely with what might be called “poetico-religious” modes of...
View Article[Final Draft] Worldly Religion in Deleuze and Whitehead: On the Possibility...
Below I’ve written a paper using the ideas of Gilles Deleuze and Alfred North Whitehead to construct a secular divinity. For Deleuze, this is an especially serious act of buggery on my part. Deleuze of...
View ArticlePart 2 on Jung’s ‘Answer to Job’ (dialogue with Tim Jackson)
Some key themes that emerge in our dialogue: Jung begins the book with an emotional, active imagination style condemnation of Yahweh’s behavior in the Book of Job. In the second half, he steps back...
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