Author: Andrew Taggart
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A Return To Religio
In Denying and Disclosing God, the late Catholic theologian Michael Buckley argues that it wasn’t “the new science” of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that led to denying God’s existence and thus to the emergence of what, in his earlier book At the Origins of Modern Atheism, he terms “modern atheism.” Instead, it was the…
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What Is Beyond Negative Emotions?
You find that you’re all caught up in agitation, anxiety, or restlessness. Yet something is already afoot, isn’t it? After all, you find that you’ve been caught up in some emotion or another. To find that this is the case is to be aware of being anxious or restless. You find, in other words, that…
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The Fallacy Of The All-in-One Romantic Relationship
Why are there so many dating apps today? And why has finding a romantic partnership become so “high stakes” in recent times? In this video, I speak of just some of the historical conditions that have given rise to what I’m terming the “all-in-one romantic relationship.” Near the end, I touch upon the deep existential…
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What Is It That You Truly Long For?
1. What is it that you truly long for? 2. Inventory possible objects: love of another person, a beautiful home, robust health, considerable wealth, and so on. All of these change. When you’re younger, you may long most for a romantic relationship. Perhaps you now long for a beautiful home. And so on. 3. Whatever…
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Are The Stars Just As Close As This Touch?
When I look into the distance, I see the stars far away. Yet when I touch the floor or my leg, I feel that it is so close. How can consciousness be said to be “closer than close”? A wonderful question! When you close your eyes and put your hand on the floor, how many…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 