Philosophical Speculations

My man 'Substantial' Brad... great to hear from you, as usual!

I obviously can’t tell whether any of you have free will, but I certainly do. It’s shaped by all kinds of things including my evolutionary driven instincts, my emotions, and the realities of the world. Nonetheless I can chose how I respond to the world, and how I act in the world. Isn’t that a fund...

A person who is not first motivated to provide for their own needs and orient their own habits of thinking is useless to everyone else. Your [preceding the above clip] answer is unrelated to what I said. If my recollection is correct, I talked about peeps who regarded their "'self' as being 'm...

Anyway, Barfield was aiming his criticism of 'sinful' behavior entirely within Western culture. Hence his example of the "white man's guilt". Cool. Then we agree that it is not a fair projection into how symptoms of schizophrenia and psychosis are interpreted and experienced in non-Europe...

Barfield's take was more metaphysical. He was not identifying 'sin' with 'selfishness', although the latter can be a manifestation of the underlying metaphysical sin. Another manifestation of that same sin could be extreme self-hate and lack of self-confidence and assertion of one's will. I don't k...

I get (at least I think I do) what Barfield talked about. What I talked about included that (I think). Barfield's take was more metaphysical. He was not identifying 'sin' with 'selfishness', although the latter can be a manifestation of the underlying metaphysical sin. Another manifestation of that...

I get (at least I think I do) what Barfield talked about. What I talked about included that (I think). Barfield's take was more metaphysical. He was not identifying 'sin' with 'selfishness', although the latter can be a manifestation of the underlying metaphysical sin. Another manifestation of that...

I would say the daemon here may be the freezing cold weather ... Well, the ice daemon does hang about in Canuckistan for half the year, yet doesn't seem to have profound psyche-altering influence over the vast majority of folks I know. They just dress imperviously in lots of weather-resistant downy...

Bernardo says in part 2 of More Than Allegory that there is no such thing as objective space or time Space and time do not have sense data. Neither color, smell, taste, sound or feel. So they cannot be objects and therefore cannot in any case be objective. All objects that can be considered to be a...

The following is a mind-blowing essay by Owen Barfield. You will not regret reading it. It explores the evolution of consciousness through the corresponding evolution of language and the central historical event of Christ. Philology and the Incarnation by Owen Barfield [/b] Sir Thomas Browne, that m...