Tag Archives: Kant

Christian Humanism and Beyond – Western Religion after Kantian Agnosticism

Posted on November 23, 2011 by

In my IT2 class, we read various interpretations of Gnostic spirituality, including one buy the very famous Princeton University scholar Elaine Pagels. As I read Pagels, I can’t help but notice her numerous references to the earlier scholarship of Adolf … Continue reading →

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Music as Purposive Organization of Sounds, without an Identifiable Purpose

Posted on August 30, 2011 by

I want to post here examples of what Kant – or at least a follower of Kant – might consider fine art. That will be difficult, because the whole point of Kantian aesthetics is to prevent us ever from writing … Continue reading →

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From Dualism to a “Higher” Monism

Posted on August 26, 2011 by

Romantic philosophy’s insistence that, all things properly viewed, there is no real distinction between thinking and acting; just as there is no real distinction between mind and body. In a word, the Romantic philosophers and scholars are attempting to close … Continue reading →

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Karma – “Arjuna built a bridge with his arrows.”

Posted on August 11, 2011 by

Nietzschean morality is too extreme for most people to countenance. They can’t conceive that throwing off all moral constraints won’t necessarily lead to: 1) general madness and anarchy, 2) the complete loss of dignity in life. But even a thinker … Continue reading →

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Collective Experience and The Magic World View

Posted on July 7, 2011 by

One thing that makes Marcel Mauss hard to read, if you actually do bother to read him at all, is the fact that he writes with a density reminiscent of that of the virtually impenetrable Immanuel Kant. This should not … Continue reading →

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