Category Archives: Philosophical and other fragments

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 →

The mediaeval mind found the world a bio-sphere, a living entity, ruled by God, by divine regula-tion, a creature approachable, amenable, amendable, at least by prayerful intercession and miracle. When Newton found the world a machine, he had the depth … Continue reading →

In the age of “science”, while the continental clerisy were delighting in knowing nothing except ideas in the mind, the British were revelling in knowing nothing except mental impressions made by the senses. To make sense of this Britannic intellectual … Continue reading →

The seventeenth century is customarily hailed the age wherein theorizing about knowledge (epistemology) supplants theorizing about being (metaphysics), scientific methodology supersedes speculation. There is truth here, but it ought not to be taken as a derogation of efforts past.