Philosophical Speculations

If all truths are provisonal, as Gramsci and Nietzsche tell us, then this includes 'truths' such as those that claim that material/spiritual debasement has a metaphysical-spiritual source and that individual freedom is premised on market inequality. From a Gramscian point of view, these 'truths' hav...

Precisely. He was most concerned with debasing of the material world, but there is also debasing of the spiritual world, i.e. materialism, Marxism (which Nietzche took to task in "tarantulas" passage of Zarathustra), etc. Even certain forms of religious fundamentalism debase the spiritual...

The Church is nowhere to be found except in various social and political "causes" that the average person couldn't care less about... Jesus said "Whatsoever You Do to the Least of My Brothers You Do unto Me". Yet one in four US households experienced food insecurity last year, w...

The Church is nowhere to be found except in various social and political "causes" that the average person couldn't care less about... Jesus said "Whatsoever You Do to the Least of My Brothers You Do unto Me". Yet one in four US households experienced food insecurity last year, w...

The Church is nowhere to be found except in various social and political "causes" that the average person couldn't care less about... Jesus said "Whatsoever You Do to the Least of My Brothers You Do unto Me". Yet one in four US households experienced food insecurity last year, w...

Here is an interesting paper recently published on cellular consciousness: https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/22/5/2545/htm . It is not written from an idealist perspective, but could probably be adapted to one (eg cell membranes as one type of 'dissociative boundary'). Here is the abstract: "Cells...

Unfortunately humanity's development doesn't proceed in this way. Never in history it is the case that something is developed intellectually then accepted, and then applied in practice. All human evolution proceeds from hidden spiritual impulses. I think that is only half right in terms of Hegelian...

It's probably true that whilst idealism can be connected with spirituality, it doesn't have to be. So there's probably value in both atheistic and nonatheistic forms of idealism being developed. For example, I've been reading about Italian idealism of the 20th century, which was very much focussed o...

I think it's just concerning that a seeming majority of idealists have a strong bias towards sprituality. It's hard to make the case we're coming to our conclusions based on reason and evidence when things like paranormal experiences keep getting brought up. I think that under an idealist metaphysi...

Yeah, I think it does have a reputation for being fringe (maybe due in part to Wikipedia!), but the few articles I've looked at seemed pretty rigorously argued.