The objects in space and time, on the contrary, exist in the phenomena. As is proven in the ontological manuals, it must not be supposed that, in reference to ends, space can thereby determine in its totality time. As is evident upon close examination, the phenomena are the clue to the discovery of, however, our [...]
Archive for the ‘Philosophy / Theology’ Category
Name that work
Posted in Philosophy / Theology on July 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This discussion cracks me up
Posted in Mathematics, Philosophy / Theology, tagged Cur in his scholis eos philosophiam non docent? on June 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
What about the system that takes as an axiom that there are self-evident truths? And why, oh why, don’t they teach them philosophy in these schools? They could start with Aristotle’s Organon.
Biased use of the word “bias”
Posted in Philosophy / Theology, tagged Cur in his scholis eos philosophiam non docent? on June 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Psychologists have discovered that humans in general – and children in particular – exhibit three innate biases:
Essentialist bias: all natural kinds have and immutable essence
Teleological bias: what they see must be purposeful and goal-orientated
Intentionality bias: actions and outcomes must be the work of an intentional agent
These biases are actually useful for children [...]
Nihil novi sub sole, secunda pars
Posted in Ethics, Philosophy / Theology, tagged Nihil novi sub sole on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Experience appears to teach that many people exhibit a kind of moral cognitive dissonance according to which they express moral repulsion toward some behavior (usually historical), together with approbation of some other behavior that is in many ways morally similar. At present, this most commonly takes the form of moral approbation or tolerance of abortion [...]
Nihil novi sub sole, prima pars
Posted in Ethics, Philosophy / Theology, tagged Nihil novi sub sole on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I recently encountered some of these images (of the staff at Auschwitz) for the first time. What struck me was how creepy they are, in particular those depicting the staff laughing and enjoying themselves. A friend I was with at the time made the same observation. And so I began to wonder, why are these [...]
A Comment on and an Explanation of the Election
Posted in Philosophy / Theology, Politics on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Comment: As somebody on Slashdot said, the deck chairs on the Titanic have been thoroughly, and decisively, rearranged.
Explanation: As Aristotle said,
To judge from the lives that men lead, most men, and men of the most vulgar type, seem (not without some reason) to identify the good, or happiness, with pleasure; which is the reason why [...]
Purpose in natural things
Posted in Philosophy / Theology, tagged Evolution, Intelligent Design, Purpose on October 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The following passage is taken from The Rediscovery of the Mind by John Searle:
Prior to Darwin, it was common to anthropomorphize plant behavior and say such things as that the plant turns its leaves toward the sun to aid in its survival. The plant “wants” to survive and flourish, and “to do so,” it follows [...]
IP, secunda pars
Posted in Ethics, Philosophy / Theology on September 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Update: this is pretty disorganized–read at your own risk.
I said previously that the purpose of copyright is to increase the public domain. The method by which it achieves this purpose is providing incentives to those capable of producing desirable instances of the types of matter subject to copyright. On this view, once such matter has [...]
Quick FYI
Posted in Humor, Philosophy / Theology on September 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Turns out it was, after all, God’s will that I go to school and teach.
Great post on Existence
Posted in Other blogs, Philosophy / Theology on September 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Update: Apparently it’s actually drawn from SCG, despite the similarities to the proof in De ente.
A Thomist from Just Thomism has written a short but great post on Kant’s statement that existence is not a predicate. It alludes to the proof of God’s existence in St. Thomas’s De ente, which I think is among the [...]
