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In today’s More Unfashionable Observations I want to take a moment to discuss how it is that all perception, including scientific reasoning, is done with an implicit morality. Earlier we touched on the play circuit in mammals and how it regulates fair play in rats as was discovered by Jaak Pankseep. For the rat, playing…
“Only one who has risked the fight with the dragon and is not overcome by it wins the hoard…the treasure hard to attain” Carl Jung Symbols of Transformation 1912 For a Swiss psychologist Carl Jung dedicated quite a bit of effort on the discussion and analysis of dragons. In his books Symbols of Transformation 1912, Psychology and…
“The words she spoke were living things, and to speak them was to create.” – C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (1943) “Chaos is dull; it is order that is interesting, because order is the signature of a mind” -G.K. Chesterton The Man Who Was Thursday (1908) Mark Twain famously said, “history doesn’t repeat itself, but…
“The doer alone learneth” -Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra 1883 Do you like to play? That is a pretty easy question to answer. Do you know why you like to play? That is a much harder question to answer and to do so we need to enlist the help of neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp. Back…
“Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt” – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 1922 (The limits of my language mean the limits of my world) Meta- (Gr. μετά): The prefix meta comes from the greek preposition originally meaning “with,” “beyond,” “after” or “among.” Its meaning evolved in different contexts, particularly linguistic, philosophical and technical…
“I took you from the pasture and from your work as a shepherd to make you leader of my people Israel.” Samuel 7:8 In the ancient world, as people began to psychologically unify, the image of the shepherd is ubiquitous. For the Zoroastrians it was Mithra in the Avestan texts. In the Gilgamesh, Enkidu is…
In this week’s Main Project article, Epilogue: On Shepherds and Shepherding, I make several references to the ancient Greek concept of the archē (Gr. Ἀρχή). It is hard to overstate the importance of understanding this concept for understanding how it is that the western philosophical tradition began, how the shift from polytheism to monotheism occurred,…
“The lord is my shepherd; I shall not want” Psalm 23 If you read the About This Project section you will know that I spent a great deal of time working with the late Peter Manchester. In Manchester’s works (Temporality and Trinity, Syntax of Time) he employs a ‘looking backwards’ method which, instead of…
Οὐκ ἐμοῦ, ἀλλὰ τοῦ Λόγου ἀκούσαντας, σοφὸν τὸ πάντ’ εἶναι ἕν. – Heraclitus “Listening not to me but to the logos, it is wisdom to recognize that all things are one” (translation mine). 1) Hermeneutics: The methodology of interpretation, especially of texts such as literature, religious scripture, legal documents or philosophical works. One uses hermeneutics…
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