Category: philosophical counseling
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Realizing The Non-existence Of Ignorance
Recently, my wife Alexandra read aloud an excellent passage from S.S. Cohen’s little book Guru Ramana: [Female Disciple]: Why then do we need to concentrate? [Ramana]: Concentration, meditation and all spiritual practices are not performed with the object of realising the Self, because the Self is ever-present, but of realising the non-existence of ignorance. This is very direct…
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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…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 