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Category Archives: Philosophy
I. The Origins of Liberalism.
(Author’s note: beginning a deeper read.) Liberalism, using that term in its classical sense, assumes that most adults are autonomous and rational individuals, or that autonomy and rationality is their ideal state. The term originated from the Latin liber, meaning … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Political Economy, Science and Technology, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged Auguste Comte, autonomous intellect, autonomous reason, capitalism and modernity, classical economics, classical liberalism, classical liberalism origins, Cogito ergo sum, history of liberalism, history of philosophy, homo economicus, Law of Three Stages, Liberalism, Logic and God, Modernity, René Descartes, secular moral philosophy
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Antinatalism and Our Fourth Stage Condition
First things first. This is not a book review, as I’ve not read The Ahuman Manifesto by Patricia MacCormack, only read about it, and its author. And that, not extensively. What I’ve read about it indicates: it’s very much in … Continue reading
Christianity and Theological Liberalism
Christianity and Theological Liberalism – How, in 1923, J. Gresham Machen exposed how Christianity tried to accommodate itself to modern materialism and contributed to its own marginalization in modern society. Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Christian Worldview, Culture, Philosophy, Political Economy, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged Cartesian cogito, Cartesian philosophy, Christian Worldview, Christianity and Liberalism, Descartes, Enlightenment legacy, Harvey Cox, Hegel influence, J. Gresham Machen, liberal theology, Liberalism, materialism and philosophy, materialism vs Christianity, Secular City, secularism, secularization, The Secular City, theological liberalism
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The West’s Ongoing Collapse at the Hands of Identity Politics and Neoliberal Ideology: 2019 Update
The free fall of contemporary academia into speech & thought totalitarianism continued … & likely to progress further given the unwillingness of those with resources to use them to oppose this ongoing juggernaut. Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Culture, Higher Education Generally, Philosophy, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged basket of deplorables, Bret Weinstein, collapse, comfort college, Donald Trump, Evergreen State, Identity Politics, National Association of Scholars, Neoliberalism, political correctness, rural whites, Steven B Gerrard, Trump supporters, white population decline, Williams College
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Cycles and Stages of Civilization
Cycles and Stages of Civilization – furthers the statement that the Third Stage is dying, that the Fourth Stage cannot replace it, we cannot simply go back, and so we must pave the way for building a Fifth Stage of civilization. Continue reading
Materialism (Vers. 2.0, Part 5)
Continuing the discussion of how the materialist worldview has left Western civilization & culture morally adrift, & vulnerable to the forces presently destroying it from within. Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Philosophy, Political Economy, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged 1950s culture, abortion and philosophy, abortions of convenience, Aldous Huxley, Christianity, Death of God, drug abuse, dystopian visions, future of social security and medicare, LSD effects, materialism, materialism and philosophy, materialism vs Christianity, Max Weber iron cage, New Atheism, Peter Watson, Philosophy, Postmodernity, rural communities, secularism, secularization, The Secular City
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Materialism (Vers. 2.0, Part 4)
Materialism (Vers. 2.0, Part 4) continues the discussion begun in Parts 1 – 3, asking whether any secular moral theories are sufficient to thwart modern tendencies toward relativism, nihilism, and abuses of money and power. Continue reading
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Tagged Ayn Rand, Bentham, capitalism, categorical imperative, Christianity, Comte, deontology, industrial civilization, Kant, Law of Three Stages, libertarianism, materialism, Mill, philosophy of history, political economy, Rawls, social justice, utilitarianism, veil of ignorance
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“What Is the Point of It All?”
Retired, elderly philosopher Herbert Fingarette (1921 – 2018) ponders death as he faces his, realizing that his previous abstract philosophizing about the subject falls short. Continue reading
