Tag: god
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How To Actually ‘Do’ Positive Thinking
Let’s suppose that, upon reading the recent spate of posts on positive or right thinking, you’re willing to throw your hat in the ring. Great. Your next question is: “How?” Here’s a clean method: S1: You’ll need to up your introspective game because you first have to label a thought a “negative thought.” Your best…
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Can ‘My’ Thoughts Hurt You?
What might be our standard picture of thought? And what, indeed, might be wrong with this picture? I see three basic propositions: In Thought Power, Sivananda (it can be surmised) takes all three propositions to be false. What would be his counters? If this new, albeit quite unorthodox picture of thinking is correct, then it…
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Can We Know God?
The following is a Q&A that follows my long form essay, “On Not Getting To Denmark.” Question I think it was Pope Benedict, who said “one thing that atheist and believers have in common is they will both learn the truth when they die.“ And that is so true because both sides believe a certain…
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Indiscriminate Benevolence In A Society Without God
When I was living in St. Louis around 2006, I re-read Theodor Adorno’s darkly acerbic Minima Moralia. I recalled, just today, one of his searing lines about “indiscriminate benevolence”: Indiscriminate benevolence towards all constantly threatens that coldness and remoteness against each, which are once again communicated to the whole. Francis Fukuyama and Phil Zuckerman (in…
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On Being Post-secular
The secularization thesis held that organized religion would fade as modern science came to take hold in modern culture and so all of human life would be slowly and properly “disenchanted” or “de-spirited.” This hasn’t happened. Instead, a far stranger development, one charted by Charles Taylor in A Secular Age, has long been unfolding. More…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 