Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Etc.
Posted in Culture on May 26th, 2008
History may be written by the victors, but it’s remembered by the victims.*
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*I wonder, however, whether it might not be more accurate to strike the definite articles.
(Others have realized what I try to express through this “pithy saying” before, of course, but it didn’t really hit me until a [...]
Yesterday was both Mothers’ Day and Pentecost. It was a strange combination; but The Wife informs me that “Spirit” in both Hebrew and Greek is a female noun. So there was some connection, I suppose.
Our associate pastor, Adam, gave the sermon. Though inspired by Pentecost, it wasn’t a “usual” Pentecost-type sermon. It had to do [...]
Posted in Culture, Philosophy, religion on Nov 21st, 2007
We are “as coming from.” We are each “arriving” at whatever moment or place we are.
(E.g.: “I come to you today with news.” “In what capacity are you here?”)
Nietzsche said that we as humans do not “go into the present” without a “remainder.” We are not just our DNA. We have a history that makes [...]
Posted in Culture, Philosophy, Science, politics on Nov 20th, 2007
This is the modernist view of history:
Thinkers in the modern era saw history as a continual progress. Think of Darwinists (ever higher and more complex forms of life!) and Hegel (ever higher and more rational forms of mind!) and Politicians (ever more expansive, rational, and peaceful forms of society!).
Christians in the Modern Era had this [...]
Posted in Philosophy on Nov 19th, 2007
In one of the two classes I’m teaching at the moment, we’ve moved on to Nietzsche’s On the Advantages and Disadvantages of History for Life (from Untimely Meditations).
We traced modern philosophy’s fundamental principle — that all human beings have Reason — from Descartes’ Discourse on Method/Meditations on First Philosophy, through Locke’s Second Treatise of Civil [...]
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