On Remembrance Day we are expected to honour soldiers. Soldiers who made individual sacrifices, for the sake of us – so that we can partake in the value(s) they defended. This is what is asked of us “in return” for their “gift”.
But is this demand without political, contemporary interest? Are we expected to value the [...]
Archive for the ‘God’ Category
On Rememberance Day
Posted in Capitalism, Ethics, God, Philosophy, writing on November 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Summer Ponderings, Existential Crisis, Meaning and Purpose
Posted in Being, Body Phenomenology, Capitalism, Ethics, God, Philosophy, Pragmatics, Technology, Things, beginning, global warming on August 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Back in touch”
This summer I have not spent much time reading and writing. In other words, I have not done much philosophy. I’ve found myself wondering, “What is the point of philosophy?”, “What is philosophy for?”. Of course, easy and bad answers to these questions exist. The usual solution is to posit some principle which [...]
Why it is necessary to have children.
Posted in Art, Being, Body Phenomenology, Capitalism, Ethics, God, Philosophy, Pragmatics, Technology, beginning, global warming, writing on April 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I must have children – it is not a matter of choice. Why? Because I myself am a child – to not have a child is to act in contradiction with my own existence. Because my generation does not exist independently of the previous one, because we continue the previous generation and intimate the next [...]
What’s wrong with secularism today
Posted in Ethics, God, Philosophy, Technology on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Flipping through “Walrus” today, I found a review of Charles Taylor’s new book: “A Secular Age”. Apparently, Taylor shifts the question concerning religion in the present context “away from whether belief in God or some higher power is reasonable to whether belief or unbelief are appropriate interpretations of one’s experience in the world”(71-72). This is [...]
Covered in Techne
Posted in Being, Capitalism, God, writing on January 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Covered in techne
we pound down on the earth
the ground sinks under our weight
hot new editions fill dumpsters
as groundless will swallows up what was left of our souls
But not – even, and especially here in the centre
hunger lingers, which cannot be paid off with dollars or utils
a hunger which starves in the total silence of the [...]
Hamilton Art Crawl
Posted in Capitalism, God, Music, beginning, coffee on January 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Hamilton is often dismissed as a place to leave, not to visit. However, as the James North Art crawl showed last night, it has a good bit of culture left in it. (Perhaps organized by those who forgot that Hamilton was a place they were supposed to leave before they did anything interesting). It seems [...]
Schelling, Pantheism, and the British Church
Posted in Being, God on November 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I will begin this post with Richard Dawkins – a strong believer in atheism, who believes in the disenchanted view of the modern world, and that arcane mythic belief poisons the enlightenment project, and kills innumerable black Africans.
However, if we examine is argument with a mere hind of closeness, it falls on its head. [...]
