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Tag Archives: Wordsworth
With Regard to the Internet, What Would Gandhi Do?
I found this Gandhi quote several years back while perusing an undated letter of his that I found in volume 49 of his Collected Works. At least that’s what I wrote down. My local branch library in Lancaster, Ca. just happened to … Continue reading
Adam Kirsch Reviews Zeev Sternhell’s New Book on the Enlightenment v. Romanticism
Are you an Enlightenment universalist, a brooding Romantic, or a Rorty-like Pragmatist trying to split the difference? Regardless of your answer, a new book has just come out with a very definite point of view on the question (the author … Continue reading
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Tagged Dostoevsky, isaiah berlin, philosophy, pragmatism, richard rorty, romanticism, the Enlightenment, thomas carlyle, Wordsworth
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Are You a Romantic or an Enlightenment Rationalist?
What, exactly, is being accessed by Todd here?:
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Tagged Blake, Freud, philosophy, poetry, psychology, reason, romanticism, Shelley, skepticism, Walt Whitman, Whitman, Wordsworth
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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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Denyse O’Leary on the Signal and the Set (the Mind and the Brain)
I see that Denyse O’Leary, the co-author of The Spiritual Brain (a book I recommend), has a blog. Here she is offering a non-reductionist analogy for the mind’s relationship to the brain (it might be like a television signal in relation to a television set): Non-materialist neuroscience, … Continue reading
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Tagged body, dualism, eternal life, free will, immortality, intimations of immortality, life after death, mind, philosophy, televisions, the soul, Wordsworth
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