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IT DOESN'T MATTER Despair ? I checked out yor blog "How to ...prevent extinction". It reminded me of C. S. Lewis' criticism of scientism (the view that the supreme goal of our species is to perpetuate itself at any expense) via his opposition to J. B. S. Haldane. See http://en.wikipedia.o...

Yes, Haldane was a truly wonderful man "C. S. Lewis wrote much of his three interplanetary space novels, The Space Trilogy, in response to Haldane, whom Lewis found to be a very immoral man." "He left the Party in 1950, shortly after having toyed with standing for Parliament as a Com...

I was raised in a devout Roman Catholic family - Mass each Sunday, a weekly block rosary (we played for the conversion of Russia), meatless Fridays, frequent Confessions, etc. I attended Catholic Schools through high school (grad. in 1960). The schools were run by Jesuits, so the education was Catho...

In my reading of THE PERFECTIBILITY OF MAN by John Passmore, I arrived this morning at this claim by Erich Fromm [ in Man for Himself (London, 1949) p. 189] on p. 437: "Man can be happy, Fromm somewhat portentously observes, only when he "has found the answer to the problem of human existe...

"Nietzsche liked to speak scornfully of Darwin. Darwin possessed, he says, "the intellect of a respectable but mediocre Englishman." A more damaging comment, from a German, is scarcely imaginable."
THE PERFECTIBILITY OF MAN, , John Passmore, p. 394

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Hi Folks, I used to subscribe to FIRST THINGS magazine. I didn't know much about Peirce until I read "Discovering the American Aristotle" by Edward T. Oakes. Reading your posts I remembered the article that so impressed me. You can access the article by searching for "peirce" on ...

Hi K,

I remember you and I'm glad that you are back.

Tom

Education is the cultivation of wisdon and virtue . "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few are to be chewed and digested..." Sir Francis Bacon I'm preparing my first book review on a book by Mary Midgley. She prompted me to do some thinking on education, especi...

I suspect that homeless families would disagree with your contention. Will you be more happy if you get rid of your computer?

Hi Rortabend, While surfing this morning, I happened upon this Web site: http://www.centerfornaturalism.org/ It's companion site is http://www.naturalism.org/ . It should be helpful to you regarding your question. The site describes naturalism as a worldview which, to me provisionally, seems to be a...

Alternatively, may I suggest that each reviewer starts their own thread of book reviews here in the Book Club section - "Rortabend's Reviews", RachelAnn's Reviews", etc. ? Some discussion will probably arise, but that is not really the aim of reviews, and my guess is that many enjoya...

I'm definitely interested in your proposal. Maybe Rick Lewis will add a topic section called "Members' Book Reviews"

Welcome, Truth: You should enjoy this forum. Psychonaut is a neat guy. He never i ntentionally tries to offend Christian evangelicals - as that would be morally wrong. I'd like to ask a favor. Regarding the 'original philosophy' that you mentioned, why not draft an a bstract of the philosophy and po...

Hi DaveEssex:

Since the concept of 'dimension' appears to be crucial to your argument, I would be grateful if you would specify the definition of the term that you intend to convey to your readers. Thanks.

Tom

Whoops - In my posting last night, when I was mentioning all the religions and spiritual traditions around the world whose core doctrines believe that our dimension is spiritual in nature, I forgot to mention the Islamic Sufis. My apologies! What about us scientologists?! What about the Christian S...