Engineer, Philosopher, Writer, and host of @RealAtheology. Ardent realist about everything except Theism and The Self. In my view, God and "I" are the problem.
Norfolk VA
Joined May 2021
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In case you missed it, here is the recent debate I had on creation vs. evolution. I'll be releasing it soon as an episode of @RealAtheology too.
Kant famously divides natural theology into cosmological, teleological, and ontological arguments. The cosmological argument reasons from indeterminate experience, the teleological from determinate experience, and the ontological argument is purely a priori.
If it's Hemingway, you are depressed and drunk.
What your favourite 20th century author says about you:
β’ Samuel Beckett: You are depressed
β’ Albert Camus: You are depressed
β’ Fyodor Dostoyevsky: You are depressed
β’ T.S. Eliot: You are depressed
β’ William Faulkner: You are depressed
β’ Hermann Hesse: You are depressed
β’ James Joyce: You are depressed
β’ Franz Kafka: You are depressed
β’ George Orwell: You are depressed
β’ Sylvia Plath: You are depressed
β’ Jean-Paul Sartre: You are depressed
β’ Leo Tolstoy: You are depressed
β’ Virginia Woolf: You are depressed
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"You see, the terms thesis and antithesis and synthesis really come from Fichte, not Hegel. Let me explain why that matters."
"Sir, this is a @Wendys "
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Read these books together.
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Melville's reading:
"Of Melville's more general reading, Shakespeare perhaps had the most impact. But in Moby Dick the influence of Carlyle was almost as apparent; and De Quincey, Sir Thomas Browne, Goethe, Montaigne, Emerson, & Hawthorne helped importantly to shape ideas and phrasing....Far outranking all other books in its all-pervading influence was the King James version of the Bible, which Melville read and reread, annotated and marked in more than one edition.
Like Shakespeare, whatever Melville read he piratically made his own, extending, deepening, and embellishing his thefts so that no literary judge can but approve and applaud."
Luther S. Mansfield & Howard P. Vincent - Explanatory Notes in The Hendricks House edition of Moby Dick
Samuel Johnson was right:
"The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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Are there any objections to Rawls' theory of justice that are as vivid and clean as, say, the many objections to utilitarianism?
#rawls #justice
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Have y'all tried praying about it? Hard to tell the difference between 'God works in mysterious ways' and shit just happening.
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The opening paragraph of Kantβs βWhat is Enlightenment?β goes so unbelievably hard.
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I appeared on Unbelievable with JD Bauman. youtube.com/watch?v=rK1SRx57β¦
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Plato scholar answers questions on the Republic!
Dr. Priou (@alexpriou) is a gentleman and a scholar and did an EXCELLENT job handling all of our questions on Book One of the Republic.
THANK YOU to everyone who attended and submitted questions.
Recording:
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Pope Leo XIV met with American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan in a private audience on Wednesday, November 4.
