Tag: Metaphysics
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Metaphysics Is At One With Soteriology
Indologist Paul Deussen’s summary of the essence of metaphysics is perfect: “All that is changeable ultimately leads back to the unchangeable, to discover and learn to know which is the whole problem of metaphysics; wherefore in the domain of metaphysics there can be no becoming” (The System of the Vedanta, p. 434). First, the changeable…
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Are You Real?
Suppose you dreamed last night about being a newborn infant. In the dream, you grew up. Later on, you saw your aunt get old, fall into sickness, and die. In this dream, you came to believe and feel that your life was unfolding within the temporal domain bounded by birth and death. You felt, above…
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Why Everyone is Sad yet Nobody Angry
Have you noticed that, by and large, few people get angry today? That few stand up for themselves and lash out? Get irritated? Yes. Ornery? Sure. Persnickety? No doubt. But blood boiling? No. Have you also noticed how most people get–and are–really sad? They have the blues, they’re in a foul mood, they’re down in the…
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A review of Chapter One of Sam Harris, Waking Up: Preliminary questions
I recently read Chapter One of Sam Harris’s forthcoming book, Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion and found myself thinking, ‘This may not end up being an excellent book, but for all that it is an important and prescient one.’ (You can read Chapter One here on his website.) Harris’s principal question, which goes unstated…
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Our modern moral metaphysic: My basic set of questions
In the past weeks, I have been investigating the main assumptions that underlie our modern moral metaphysic. So far, I have examined arguments 4 and 3 (in that order). 1.) Because the world is lost and fallen, it needs to be changed or ultimately saved. 2.) Because the world is broken or out-of-order, it needs…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 