Philosophy
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Empedocles: Cosmologist and Magician
It’s interesting to look back in history some 2500 years and see how far we haven’t come. Empedocles was an ancient Greek philosopher who lived from 492 BCE to 432 BCE. He was a…
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Evil and the Intelligent Universe
We must look at evil from a new paradigm to understand it—the old paradigm of seeing good and evil as absolutes no longer works. Humans are much too complex for that. The new…
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Give It Up: You Can’t Improve Yourself!
I recently heard this line, “You can’t improve yourself,” in a talk by Alan Watts. It struck me in two ways. First, it was rather depressing to think that I couldn’t improve this…
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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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Four Features of a Mystical Experience
What is the role of consciousness in the study of the universe and our life here on earth? We take our everyday consciousness as our default setting, thinking it gives us the proper…
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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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Quantum Physics and Kierkegaard
I realize this is a strange combination: Quantum Physics and Danish existentialist philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), but I think Kierkegaard’s ideas in relation to proving God’s existence are relevant to how we interpret…
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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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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…
