Philosophical Speculations

Hi all, I'm working on a thesis for my design MFA. My topic is about the role of the unconscious in design. My conviction is that design operates at an unconscious level. The most salient designs throughout history are archetypal and not the result of deliberate, conscious planning –crosses, mandal...

It made me much more sensitive to when Steiner slides into various kinds of subtle dualism. Steiner wasn't a dualists but like all actual humans he was susceptible to falling back into the more subtle aspects of it now and then. Should I even ask for you to provide examples to back up the above cla...

So that's where I am at with it and I'd be interested to hear your view on Abraxas and how it might sit within idealism and certainly Schop's notion. No need for a detailed technical analysis, the general will do fine. I like to start simple and see the broad strokes before I stick my head underwat...

It might also provide some evidence for you on the topic you've been exploring in other threads regarding the effect of acknowledged metaphysical beliefs, whether firmly held or not. How much on the fence is Harris exactly? How far is he prepared to go? And maybe the biggest one - what are the real...

Analogy: If we look at the needle on a compass, we know that the reason it points to North and South lies within magnetic poles of the Earth (which is like a giant magnet), not within the compass itself. But when we look at an egg developing within a living being, physicalist science assumes that a...

Anyway, as much as I revere Steiner, I also see him as a great example of how complex spiritual 'vision' is and I take him very seriously when he said that his mistakes need to be noticed and understood. Most importantly, I appreciate that he stated explicitly that such corrections of his errors ce...

Oh, to your point: I can imagine lots of reasons a person would respond to "enthusiasm about Steiner" that way. It just so happens that those aren't the only responses I can imagine. That's why I like to unpack what is actually going on to some extent. Again, that probably is meaningless ...

But, please, it would help if you could take a minute to just clip out what I said that, for you, came across as so dogmatic. Thanks. I never felt, or said, you were coming across as dogmatic. I'm simply suggesting that if you don't want to deal with doubts about the accuracy of recollections from ...

Why don't you provide us links or files to the two separate lectures cycles so we can see exactly what Steiner said and the context in which he said it in both of them? Good point ... Being curious as to Steiner's take on the ontic essence of these 'guides' (which I'm assuming are akin to so-called...

Yes, indeed. Because there was that study group that looked closely at the two separate lectures cycles that Steiner gave on Angels, each within I think ten days of each other, one to a group primarily of clergy and the other to a group primary of physicist. Fascinating! Because of course Steiner w...