tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-316982662023-11-15T13:51:19.830-05:00Spiritual MaterialAre we humans primarily spiritual beings...? or primarily material? Or exclusively one or the other? Similarly, is the world, the universe, primarily or exclusively one or the other? Are the spiritual and material distinct from one another, connected somehow, one and the same, or something else? No one can assume to have answers to these questions. At best we have small clues. What is certain, however, is that this turn of the millennium is fraught with crises of the spiritual and the material.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31698266.post-1173807698233812892007-03-13T14:40:00.000-04:002007-03-13T21:00:00.936-04:00Disproving the Existence of GodIn a New
York Times article entitled "Darwin's God" (March 4, 2007) Robin
Marantz Henig reviews the work of several current scientists, most
notably Scott Atran, an anthropologist at the National Center for
Scientific Research in Paris, as they seek to explain why spiritual
beliefs have been and remain so prevalent in the lives of us humans.
Atran and other confirmed atheists find that, on the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31698266.post-1166492151568941932006-12-18T20:23:00.000-05:002006-12-18T20:47:11.253-05:00But is it Enlightenment?Last Saturday Time magazine announced its "Person of the Year" and it's everyone who posts on the internet. This is an interesting development in a number of ways. It's ironic that an iconic publication such as Time, bastion of consummate professionals would designate the mass of unwashed amateurs as something to honor.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31698266.post-1154026483581859092006-07-27T14:53:00.000-04:002006-07-27T16:47:10.863-04:00If the only tool is a hammer, then history repeats itselfIt's been said that "history repeats itself." It's understandable
that people would say this and it might even be true in some sense.
There's a modern proverb which says, "If the only tool you have is a
hammer, every problem looks like a nail." People's— and by
extension, a culture's— thinking and experience can be limited,
limited in such a way that in vastly different situations Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31698266.post-1153923916250839892006-07-26T10:18:00.000-04:002006-07-26T12:22:44.546-04:00Is philosophy practical?It's been said time and again that philosophy "isn't practical." This comment is puzzling. Philosophy is the study of the thinking of other people— people considered to be great thinkers— with an eye to improving our own thinking. How could this be impractical? On the contrary, reasoning and improving our ability to reason should be practiced every day, perhaps all the time, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0