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Mysterianism: Broadened
Mysterianism. Mysterianism (or: the new mysterianism) is an idea that has been kicking around philosophy of mind circles at least since 1989, the year Colin McGinn published an article entitled, “Can We Solve the Mind-Body Problem?”[1] He argued not. He … Continue reading
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Tagged big-bang-cosmology, cognitive-science, Colin McGinn, consciousness, enlightenment, jerry-fodor, kierkegaardian-leap, mysterianism, naturalism, new-mysterianism, noam-chomsky, OOPARTS, origin-of-life, owen-flanigan, Philosophy, philosophy of mind, pyrrhonian-skepticism, Religion, science, Scientific anomalies, scientism, skeptical-philosophy, spirituality, thomas-nagel, Transcendental philosophy, transcendental-naturalism
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The Grandest Narrative (II: Decline and Fall)
I’m not an architect or a construction engineer, but I know enough to know that if you want to erect a tall building, you start with a sturdy foundation. The foundation must be in place to hold stable all that … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotelianism-Christianity, Books, Christianity decline influence, Civilization and Christianity, Collapse narratives, decline of the West, first principles, Friedrich Nietzsche, Humanity made in God's Image, Mutually Assured Destruction, Nietzsche, Nietzsche "advent of nihilism", Philosophy, post truth, power unleashed, Religion, Russell "A Free Man's Worship", social constructs
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The Grandest Narrative (I. The Rise)
Almost no one (besides the intellectualized children of modernity, that is) has believed that the world just happened. But the idea that we could understand, using our minds, how it came about, started (so far as we can determine) with … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, Aquinas, Christendom, Christianity, Creation, God, humans as problem solvers, intelligibility of the universe, narrative, Philosophy, Religion, rise of the West, technology, Western civilization, worldviews
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