Month: January 2022
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A Brief Summary Of Koyre’s From the Closed World To The Open Universe
Intention Because Alexandre Koyre’s brilliant From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe (1957) can, for those who aren’t scholars in the history of science or in the history of ideas (and I am certainly not the former), I’d like to provide a way of understanding the text below. In essence, I surface what I…
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Modernity As Purgatory
Eschatology The last part of Seyyed Hossein Nasr’s exposition of Quran 1:1-7 caught my eye–specifically, Quran 1:5-7: Guide us [Lord] upon the straight path, / the path of those on whom Thy Grace is, / not those on whom Thine anger is, nor those who are astray. Reading the final three lines, Nasr comments on…
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The Change Alchemist: Meditation As A Leadership Practice
Here’s how Shobhana Viswanathan introduces her interview with me: New Podcast Episode!Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gX-EiPVPListen on Anchor: https://lnkd.in/gwtyd29G “Philosophy urges us to wake up to what we have so far taken for granted.” To kick off the New Year on The Change Alchemist, I have a special guest, Andrew Taggart, Practical Philosopher and Zen Buddhist to discuss…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 