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Robert Campin (1375-1444): the truth will out?
I can’t quite put my finger on it, but I get a “the truth will out” vibe from the paintings of Robert Campin—a sort of protective concealment-revelation cycle of some sort functioning as a subtext in at least some of … Continue reading
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Tagged art, confirmation bias, critical thinking, intuition, painting, painting interpretation, Plato, psychology, reason, robert campin, subjectivity, truth
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Pope John Paul II: He Buffeted His Body and Made It His Slave?
According to Yahoo News today, a new book by Monsignor Slawomir Oder claims that Pope John Paul II habitually abused himself: John Paul frequently denied himself food — especially during the holy season of Lent — and “frequently spent the … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, belt, Catholicism, Christianity, God, Jesus, Paul, philosophy, Plato, pope john paul II, psychology, religion
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Richard Rorty in the Gospel of Matthew—or the Reification of Just One Way of Being in the World?
In Matthew is a curiously ironic parable, told by Jesus, that strikes me as something that the neopragmatist Stanford philosopher, Richard Rorty, might have told when he was alive, with proper theatrics, as a joke. In other words, if you think that there is … Continue reading
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Tagged ethics, God, philosophy, Plato, richard rorty, social justice, Terry Eagleton, the Bible, the gospel of matthew, the gospels, the poor, Wordsworth
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The Ideal vs. the Real: Our Kitchen as Plato’s Cave
The image that was on the side of the gingerbread house kit box wasn’t exactly what my three and six year old ended up making:
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Tagged 2009, Christmas, idealism, life, philosophy, Plato, vision
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Would I Mind Being Called an Atheist?
I wouldn’t mind the atheist tag—if that is what I was. Atheism has a more than respectable intellectual pedigree and it has brought enormous levels of freedom and intellectual intelligence into the world. I wouldn’t want to be in a … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, agnosticism, atheism, atheist, evolution, Genesis, philosophy, Plato, psychology, science, Socrates
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“And if I claim to be a wise man, well, it surely means that I don’t know”: Socratic Skepticism in a Kansas Song (1976)
Rising above the noise and confusion of the herd—to other noises and other confusions?:
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Tagged cool cats, Kansas, music, mystical states, philosophy, Plato, poetry, psychology, reason, Socrates, the Enlightenment
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The Passion of the Agnostic? “The Death of Socrates” by Jacques-Louis David
From Plato’s Apology (Socrates speaking): “I am wiser than this man: neither of us knows anything that is really worth knowing, but he thinks that he has knowledge when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think … Continue reading
