From Philosophical Detection 1974
If you undertake the task of philosophical detection, drop the dangerous little catch phrase which advises you to keep an “open mind.”
This is a very ambiguous term… That term is an anti-concept: it is usually taken to mean an objective, unbiased approach to ideas, but it is used as a call for [...]
The following quote by Mortimer J. Adler from his book, How To Think About God, addresses one of the causes of the collapse of the Kosmos into the cosmos. Today we live in a world that is empirically dominated, where metaphysics has essentially been thrown out of academia. It all started with Kant and was [...]
Quotes, sayings and books by Nietzsche
From my earliest days I’ve had a problem with the idea that man is responsible for the nature of sin and bringing evil into the world. The game was rigged from the start. God created man, and created him fallible. There was no way we could not have sinned. [...]
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Implications of the death of God:
There is no freedom
There is no truth
There is no morality
There is no creativity
There is no choice
There is no purpose
There is no hope
What a sad and hopeless set of ideals. Call me a madman; I’ll keep my God. What sort of declaration of independence or constitution would be written [...]
The Crisis of The West
The following is from Michael P. Federici’s book on Voegelin simply titled “Eric Voegelin.” Federici is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Mercyhurst College and Co-Director of the Center for Constitutional Studies at the National Humanities Institute in Washington D.C.. This is the first book that I have found [...]
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