Series: Main Project

Hello and welcome to Articulated Reason. I am glad you have decided to embark on this journey with me. If you have not read the top level menu items, please do. They will familiarize you with the structure and nature of this website. And with that we are off and running. It is my fondest…

“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…

“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…

Editors note: I struggled for some time trying to figure out how to go about this post. The material is so incredibly rich that attempting to mine the entirety of its value in a single post is just not feasible and would do overall harm to the coherence of the project. What we are going…

Our early ancestors, after the end of the last ice age roughly 14,000 BC, had a very important question to answer viz., how are we going to survive? In a world with very little structure the primary concern was that of nature. Nature, like fire, has two sides — the benevolent and the malevolent. There…

The Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. Proverbs 9:10   This project is of enormous in scope. The span ranges from the earliest writings of the Mesopotamian Empire to the present day. The idea which gave birth to this project is that the…

As mentioned in several posts already, the closest the modern world has to the biblical  understanding of the world comes from American Pragmatism and Phenomenology. For both the pragmatist and phenomenologist, that which is experienced is that which is real. For instance, in his seminal work and arguably the seminal work of phenomenology,  Sein und…

Here we are. To the best of my ability I’ve attempted, in the last twenty-five posts, to create a primer for this moment. Beginning with the importance of the image of the shepherd in the ancient world to the Mesopotamian and Egyptian cosmogonies which preceded the ancient Hebrews, to how various scientific disciplines have found…

After creating the heavens and the earth from the deep which was void and without form, God sets to the task of creating the world. Between Genesis 1:3-25 there is a lot going on and most of it is quite subtle. It will bear careful consideration before we get to the creation of man.  …

Using the KJV, the story of Adam and Eve has a total of eight hundred and ten words. Contained in this incredibly short and dense story are a number of themes. In no particular order and likely not exhaustive we see the themes of the divine order, the relationship between God and humanity, free will,…