Critical Thinking
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Free Will vs. Spiritual Determinism
In my last article, linked here, I reviewed an internationally renowned expert on the Western tradition’s philosophical and mystical roots, Peter Kingsley, and his view of the “Spiritual Determinism” embodied in Empedocles’ stories of…
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Empedocles and Spiritual Determinism
When I began writing this series on Peter Kingsley’s view of Empedocles, I thought it would be just one article. Now I am on my fifth article. Each time I think my next…
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Our Lived Life
Should we base our life on abstract ideas, or should our “lived life” dictate those abstract ideas? Off the cuff, many of us say, of course, our lived life should dictate those ideas.…
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Subjective and Objective Knowledge
In our modern scientific era, we don’t pay much attention to “subjective” knowledge; instead we prefer “objective” knowledge. That is knowledge that is fact based and empirically verifiable. If we can’t demonstrate a…
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Natural Law and the Trinity
In my last article I showed the connection between Natural Law and the notion of an Intelligent Universe. In this article I would like to show how Natural Law is also related to…
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Is Something Good Because God Says So?
In Plato’s dialogue, Euthyphro, Socrates asks just this questions: “Do the gods love holiness [the good] because it is holy [good], or is it holy [good] because the gods love it?” The Divine…
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Heading to a Cease-Fire in Ukraine?
There was an interesting article in the opinion section of the New York Times a couple of days ago. It was by Sergey Radchenko, who is an historian of the Cold War. It…
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Finding Objectivity Behind the “Veil of Ignorance”
In my last article, “Marx Embraced Capitalism” I talked about the need to discuss the fairest and most just way to distribute the wealth that Capitalism has created. The Problem of Subjectivity One…
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Do Christians Really Believe in Free Will?
Allan Watts asked the question, many of us do, “Are humans free beings or determined beings?” Christians maintain that human beings have free will, however corrupted and fallen we are. On the other…
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Carl Jung on the Dangers of Modernity
I was in a discussion with fellow Medium writer, Graham Pemberton, over why Carl Jung had refused to meet with the Indian Holy Man, Ramana Maharshi, while he was in India in the…