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Philosophy and theology have anciently exhibited a difficulty in harmonizing the temporal and eternal, the ideal and real, the phenomenal and noumenal. The rationalists and empiricists of early modern thought intensified the bifurcation of reality with Kant providing a compromise, … Continue reading →

From Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle through to the great scholastics and on to the modern masters, all philosophers of note have been at pains to proceed logically, and to begin by defining their terms as clearly as possible. That is … Continue reading →

Existentialism arises in response to the abstractness proffered by the post-Kantian infatuation with an absolute creative ego as spun out in the works of Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, et al., and it contrarily posits the individual as the ultimate point of … Continue reading →

Schleiermacher is not customarily set among the existentialists, however, his investigation into man as rudimentally aware of the contingency of his being makes him, in my assessment, the radix of this movement that surrenders the speculative search for man’s nature … Continue reading →

  Aristotle attempted the great synthesis of the Greek world, and there followed him lesser lights, each capturing the stage with some bit of theory or insight, and spreading it out as if a whole. The same lack of acuity … Continue reading →

Every morning I make my dog breakfast, the same breakfast, and as it is prepared, he jumps up and down in front of the kitchen counter—undistractedly fixated on the process–until the bowl is set in the accustomed place. The epistemologists … Continue reading →