We had to learn and we had to teach the despairing men that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and think instead of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our [...]
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This besides being over my head, is absolutely fascinating. “Well, for me, sometimes it’s the very specific questions about, you know, what is the nature of agency? You know, how do we explain action and intention and those types of things? And well, let’s take a look at how they go wrong in these types of pathology [...] My wife heard “everyone” talking about The Shack. Apparently it has done quite well sales-wise, and has benefited from word of mouth dissemination. That’s how my wife found out about it. She normally reads at a leisurely pace, but she devoured this one overnight, then handed it off to me. She commented that it [...] The computer, WordPress, or the aether… something ate the post I wanted to make this morning. No time to conjure up something else. I did see a quote in my random cyberwalk this morning – attributed to Kilgore Trout, but it doesn’t sound like him… You can tell a man’s love by his work. [...] Reading this article in the latest UU World, I was struck by just how true the central point is. I recognized the thought process immediately. I do have some leftover childhood imagination, and I find that almost everything I do with a margin of satisfaction has some of this kind of thinking behind it. [...] It’s not as simple as we would like for it to be. And putting it under a microscope is an idea whose time has come… There are so many money quotes in the linked article that I’m tempted to copy & paste the whole thing here. I know… my job is supposed to be [...] Something everyone should understand. Proof is not for the real world. An excellent post from Sean at Cosmic Variance pounds this point home quite well. So well, in fact, that I have little to add. But the discussion can continue from where Sean leaves it. After we’ve established that we don’t believe anything about [...] Dan Harper briefly addresses what I think is among the more pivotal points about religion in the context of debate about its value, here… namely, that religion doesn’t necessarily mean “belief” (about God, the supernatural, etc… or about objective reality at all, per se). In fact, I think that one of the tasks religion is most poorly [...] NYT on primate’s moral building blocks. Very interesting stuff about what amounts to a relatively new field of research in biology – and one that may have strong implications for philosophy. Fun stuff. I’ll try to come back & update this post with some interesting excerpts & maybe even a comment. (Update: the promised update [...] This teapot sized tempest got me thinking. I think it really does all depend on what qualifies as “real”, “knowledge”, blah blah blah. Take this simple test, and then spend the rest of the day wondering why you did: 1. a) Do you agree that the Mona Lisa is good art? |
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