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Category Archives: Philosophical and other fragments
God save the King: reflections on an incarnation of symbol
With the accession of Charles III there has been, in some corners, those questioning the role of constitutional monarchy in this nation. The questions concern either the cost or the relevance of the institution as now constituted. They that decry … Continue reading
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The Serpent and the Symbol
Sacred texts and tales frequently tell of a serpent. The serpentine symbol carries varied understandings for it is the nature of a symbol to stand as portal to an unfathomable well of meaningfulness, the subconscious intimacy with the primal forces … Continue reading
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on Things Foreign–A Divertimento
There is this lesson given in the Chandogya Upanishad, a sacred text of Hinduism. “Just as a bird, tied to a string will fly around in all directions, and finding no resting place anywhere else, will resort to the very … Continue reading
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Occidental Ideas, Part 25: Peroration and Peregrination
A young man, recounting to me his university years, explained that he had initially taken some courses in philosophy and theology but, finding them nebulous, opted to embrace a career in a field of intellectual surety, in science. Internally I … Continue reading
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Occidental Ideas, Part 24: World Process
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
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Occidental Ideas, Part 23: Word Games
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
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Occidental Ideas, Part 22: Positivism and Pragmatism
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
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