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Materialism (Vers. 2.0, Part 5)

Posted on April 25, 2019 by Steven Yates

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 | Leave a comment

Materialism (Vers. 2.0, Part 4)

Posted on April 12, 2019 by Steven Yates

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 →

Posted in Christian Worldview, Culture, Libertarianism, Philosophy, Political Economy, Uncategorized, Where is Civilization Going? | 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 | 1 Comment

Materialism (vers 2.0., Part 3)

Posted on January 28, 2019 by Steven Yates

Our discussion continues: what, precisely, is materialism? It is not simply the pursuit of wealth & material goods. It is a comprehensive worldview. It is important to understand this distinction to understand one of the most basic issues our civilization must eventually face. Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Philosophy, Political Economy, Where is Civilization Going? | Tagged Auguste Comte, discrimination and morality, homosexuality and morality, materialism, materialism pursuit of power, materialist naturalism, metaphysics, philosophy metaphysics, religion and ethics, religion and science, Ruth Benedict, Ruth Benedict anthropologist, science and religion, slavery and morality, worldviews | 3 Comments

Materialism (Vers 2.0, Part 2)

Posted on January 18, 2019 by Steven Yates

Materialism (Vers 2.0, Part 2): in “A Free Man’s Worship” (1903) philosopher Bertrand Russell called for a humanist ethic of respect for scientific truth, economic justice, and world peace. How well has this held up? Is its failure just the sign of a civilization’s growing pains, or of something fundamentally wrong with its key assumptions? Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Philosophy, Political Economy, Where is Civilization Going? | Tagged A Free Man's Worship, Aldous Huxley, Bertrand Russell, Brave New World, Deep Establishment, Huxley Brave New World, materialism, Modernity, Nietzsche, power vs goodness, power vs morality, Russell a Free Mans Worship, Russell the Impact of Science on Society, Russell the Scientific Outlook, Skinner Beyond Freedom and Dignity, social engineering, Technocracy, technocratic elite, technology of behavior | Leave a comment

Materialism (Vers 2.0, Part 1)

Posted on January 7, 2019 by Steven Yates

[Author’s note: this series of posts is a much-expanded and hopefully much-improved version of the series that began here, which is desirable to reprint lest it disappear from that site. The question that came to me was, Why not refurbish … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Philosophy, Where is Civilization Going?, Where Is Philosophy Going? | Tagged advent of nihilism, antimetaphysics, Auguste Comte, Charles Darwin evolution, Christianity, Christianity and materialism, Emile Durkheim, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gordon Gekko, Gordon Gekko greed is good, greed is good, John Dewey, Karl Marx, Material Girl, materialism, materialism and philosophy, materialism versus Christianity, materialism vs Christianity, materialist culture, materialist philosophy, metaphysics, Modernity, Nietzsche nihilism, nihilism, philosophy is not dead, Wilhelm Wundt | 3 Comments

The Deep Establishment

Posted on December 15, 2018 by Steven Yates

In the title of his recent Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017) former Greek foreign minister Yanis Varoufakis introduces this phrase: The Deep Establishment. I like it! The … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Higher Education Generally, Media, Political Economy, Where is Civilization Going? | Tagged Adults in the Room, Big Pharma, big tech, Carroll Quigley, central banks, Conspiracy Theories, David Rockefeller Sr, Deep Establishment, Deep State, fake news, military-security complex, new world order, privished, The Deep Establishment, The Deep State, the one percent, Tragedy and Hope, udo ulfkotte, world government movement, Yanis Varoufakis, Zbigniew Brzezinsky | 3 Comments

George Herbert Walker Bush (1924 – 2018)

Posted on December 5, 2018 by Steven Yates

Today is George Herbert Walker Bush’s funeral. I don’t normally write notices for just-deceased politicians, so this is a departure for me. But something has aroused my curiosity. I posted a very brief notice about his death, along with a … Continue reading →

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