[Because of its importance to ideas which have been simmering in my mind for years, I’m publishing a minor update of one of my first weblog entries: Symmetry-breaking, From Physics and Mathematics to Metaphysics first published on 2006/12/05. I’ll soon be publishing a new entry which builds on some aspects of the ideas in this … [Read more…]
All reason is from God and of God. There is no immaterial reasoning agency part of or attached to the human creature. There is no mind or soul as many imagine, nor can we directly access even the manifested truths underlying Creation, let alone any transcendental truths which exist beyond this particular Creation. All reason … [Read more…]
In a recent article, Freedom and Structure in Human Life — When Do We Become Persons?, I quoted a summary of a view of man developed by the theologian Metropolitan John Zizioulas of the Greek Orthodox Church. I see much good in that view as stated in the summary and didn’t go into a detailed … [Read more…]
I’ll be writing articles on some aspects of politics and the history of government which interest me and doing so in terms of my concepts of created being. I’ll concentrate on American politics and will cover some interesting phenomena often seen as indicative of conspiracies. These articles will reflect both some of my reading of … [Read more…]
I’ve come to the position that created being exists across a spectrum going from abstract to concrete or particular. A thing, a particularized form of being, still has its abstract being in it the way that a vase has still the raw materials of its clay and glazing. In fact, as you penetrate the stuff … [Read more…]
God has shaped a thing-like world out of more basic stuff. I’ve discussed this in various ways, especially in the category: Christian in the Universe of Einstein. We human beings form our minds by responding actively to that world and by penetrating to understandings of that more basic stuff. A particular thing is a manifestation … [Read more…]
[I’m working on a series of books summarizing my thoughts and writings over the past 3+ years, building upon the contents of my first published book, To See a World in a Grain of Sand. As I review my work to-date, I’ll be republishing some of the articles from my blogs, sometimes pretty much unaltered … [Read more…]
Those who’ve read some of the writings on my blogs, Acts of Being and To See a World in a Grain of Sand, will likely realize I’ve been dealing with this project of creating a worldview on a somewhat disorganized basis, that is, I was writing as ideas came to me, sometimes addressing a few … [Read more…]
Truth unfolds in time through communal processes. I’ve realized there is possibly a very clear example of what this means in an area where I’ve perhaps misspoken a little. Maybe I’ve simply been in error. In any case, I’m also willing to claim that new truths might emerge in time through various processes, new truths … [Read more…]
I’m slowly reading Hume’s A Treatise on Human Nature and trying to determine why I’m sympathetic to his general train of thought though I’m in opposition to some of his most important lines of thought. Maybe. It’s hard to say because he was trying hard to respond to empirical reality but he was somewhat entangled … [Read more…]