Consequentialism is the doctrine that actions are justified by their ends. The most popular form in the last century has been utilitarianism. The determination of these so-called theories splits into the question of what is the general value which all actions realize as a consequence, … Continue reading Consequentialism Isn’t A Moral Theory
We are today mystified by language. This is primarily because as time has marched on, people in general have come to live more abstractly, more symbolically, and have lost sight of the whole from which an abstraction came, or that which a symbol once referenced. … Continue reading Analogies of Reason
It is said that Hegel’s philosophy is a philosophy of contradiction, but this is nothing new. Since the days of Heraclitus, and far before in the esoteric societies of Egypt and the philosophical systems of India, the “West” has known of philosophers of contradiction. What … Continue reading Contradictio est Regula Veri: Hegelian Dialectic vs Formal Dialectic
This particular issue comes to mind in almost a cycle of seasons for my various interests. It’s important, it’s complex, yet at the same time I cannot help but have intuitions that this supposed difficulty is probably stupidly easy and simple as well as not … Continue reading From Logic to Nature: Some Thoughts
A few months ago I had a direct and recorded interaction with the person who runs the youtube channel “Perspective Philosophy” (PP for short). For anyone interested in that interaction, it is available on my own channel. In that interaction I took control of the … Continue reading Doing what Perspective Philosophy couldn’t
A description of speculative logic in the analogy of mechanical reflex to the process of inquiring into absolute consequences.
What does Hegel mean by negation? How do his three negations relate to our everyday notions of such a structure or dynamic? As with all things Hegelian, it is not so alien as it first appears, indeed it is closer to what we intend by … Continue reading Hegelian Negations: Abstract, Determinate, & Absolute
Many have written on this, many with far more decades of experience, far more degrees, and far more recognition, but those many have failed, now fail, and will fail. It is, in hindsight, impossible to not fail in introducing Hegelianism, nonetheless, here I take another … Continue reading The Mystery of Hegel: Absolute Thinking
We talk of thought and thinking all the time, we deal with their reality every day and every waking moment, yet when we are asked to give an account of just what they are we find ourselves at a loss—the familiar and mundane transforms into … Continue reading On Thought & Thinking
Rare though it is, it is not so rare to see the question asked by naïve materialist atheists: Is it logical to live? Is it logical to feel? Is it logical to have morality? Normally one would rebuke them for clearly having a misunderstanding of what … Continue reading [Thoughts] Are Life, Feelings, and Morality Logical?
The Empyrean Trail 