Bertrand de Jouvenel was a French political philosopher active in the middle two-thirds of the 20th century. He was considered to be an expert on the American political system, which at least means he didn’t just naively take American leaders and academicians on their word that the United States is a liberal democracy. The United … [Read more…]
I’d like to return to an essay I wrote in 2009, Darwin, Einstein, and the Totemic Mind: In the totemic mind of ancient hunters of elk, we see the possibility of modern hunters of the secrets of God’s Creation, hunters who carry out their quest in the acts of shaping their minds to embody the … [Read more…]
This website was down for a week or so because of multiple problems. With the help of tech support at WordPress, I’ve got things working generally though there are some minor glitches. The most recent was an inability to preview posts and also I added and then deleted a user and his only post went … [Read more…]
The answer is: communities are real entities, just as real and just as strange as the abstract forms of being, quantum wavefunctions, from which concrete being is shaped. But no more real nor more strange. To see the reality of communities (and some other `abstract’ entities), we can return to my basic claim about being, … [Read more…]
I’ve made the claim in various ways that all of our knowledge and thought comes from God’s thoughts as manifested in Creation, including this universe with its concrete thing-like being. This claim implies the further claim which I would strongly support: even the structures and basic elements of our most abstract systems (say those of … [Read more…]