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Absolute Certainty
My father was a student of history. When I was in my ‘teen years he often regaled me with tales and names of the French Enlightenment and the French Revolution of 1789 of which I understood little. What I retained … Continue reading
Posted in Biography, Books and Literature, Church, Religion, Government, Historical Fiction, History
Tagged Age of Enlightenment, Committee of Public Safety, Damiens, Diderot, Francisco Rebolledo, French Enlightenment, French Revolution of 1789, Goya, Helen R. Lane, King Louis XVI, Lavoisier, Louis XVI of France, Madame de Pompadour, Marie-Antoinette, Maximilien Robespierre, Mozart, Rasero, Robespierre, Rousseau, Ruth Scurr, Voltaire
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Friedrich Nietzsche on God, Christianity, The Enlightenment, Rationality, Science, Truth, and Especially About Words & Language
In my early years I associated Nietzsche’s name with the phrase “God is dead”, but I didn’t know if he was supposed to be celebrating this assertion or decrying it. In the early 1980s, when having a philosophical conversation with my late … Continue reading
Posted in Biography, Faith, mind, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, Science, soul
Tagged Alan Watts, Buddhism, Christianity, Dave Robinson, Friedrich Nietzsche, God, God is dead, Human, Joseph Conrad, Language, Nietzsche, Postmodernism, Rationality, Robert Pirsig, Rudyard Kipling, science, The Tao, Truth, words, Zen
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Cultivating the Corpus Callosum 