Category: Metaphysics (Ontology)
Christianity and Hellenism, Part 2 of 3: On Being, Loosely Speaking
In my last post, I asserted that the early Christians made discriminating use of the ideas and methods of Greek philosophy. The key terms and categories were carefully reshaped and turned towards biblical ends. If old Plato was baptized in...
Metaphysics and Meaning of James Davison Hunter
Milliner’s characteristically incisive remarks today include this graph from James Matthew Wilson: The meaning of the world that we usually describe as constituting culture, or a culture… does not depend primarily upon our social conventions. Rather, the signs of a...
The New Dualisms
Gene Fant dug up this little gem from the latest Proceedings of the Modern Language Association by Timothy Morton: It’s not just that rabbits are rabbits in name only; it’s that whether or not we have words for them, rabbits...
The Expansiveness of Time
Tomorrow, my experience of time will dramatically change. Over the past six months, I have been working for an international corporation in what amounted to a digital stockroom. It was the sort of job that would turn the most hardened...
Which Dualism, Whose Description?
“Dualism” is a dirty word. Whether it refers to bodies and souls, men and women, reason and emotion, gender and sex, binary thinking is no longer in. The rejection of dualisms takes different forms, depending on which intellectual tradition you’re...