Statue of Spinoza, near his house on the Paviljoensgracht in The Hague.
“These [religious ideas] are given out as teachings, are not precipitates of experience or end-results of thinking: they are illusions, fullfilments of the oldest, strongest and most urgent wishes of mankind.” Continue reading Review of Lewis Vaughn’s “Star Map: A Journey of Faith, Doubt, and Meaning
Heraclitus Laozi Buddha
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Heraclitus and Laozi can be viewed as the earliest representatives of what we can call process philosophy. Continue reading Ancient Process Philosophers
Alfred North Whitehead (1861 – 1947)
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There is a strong tendency to overlook process and to think we simply live in world full of separate things. We use nouns, which indicate some kind of stable entities — what in the philosophical tradition have been called “substances.” Continue reading The Basics of Process Philosophy
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“Jesus And Car Wrecks”
I was recently in a car accident. It was a serious one in which I suffered a broken rib, a broken collarbone, a fractured ankle, stitches on my right wrist and right hand, and stitches from the tip of my nose to the top and along the bridge of my nose to my eyebrows. Continue reading Is There A Divine Plan?
I recently read Yuval Harari’s extraordinarily astute piece, Why Fiction Trumps Truth, in the New York Times. Harari is an Israeli historian, philosopher and author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
