Month: June 2020
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We Need To Break The Spell: Against Secularism, Physicalism, & Humanism
I just finished reading Bernardo Kastrup’s excellent book The Idea of the World: A Multi-Disciplinary Argument for the Mental Nature of Reality (2019). The book is a critique of the physicalist ontology and a spirited defense of an idealist ontology that, as I see it, is essentially nondualist. In this post, I’d like to comment…
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Political Freedom, Slavery, & Manual Labor In Classical Athens: Parts I & II
It took me a little while to write Part II, so I thought I’d include both in what follows. In Part I (also included below), I discussed Benjamin Constant’s important essay. In Part II, I turn to the question of manual labor in Classical Athens and, in particular, to the way in which labor, often…
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The Benefits And Limits Of Cleaning Up
Yesterday I advanced an argument in support of “cleaning up.” Today I provide a separate argument the point of which is to ensure that cleaning up is put in its proper place. Defining Messiness Whenever you sense contractions in the body, strong feelings arising in the body, and mental proliferations, you’re very likely in the…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 