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Why Choose the Jews?
It feels like forever – so changed are the times! – but it’s only been two days at this writing. Starting in the early hours of October 7, Hamas operatives surprised and overwhelmed Israeli surveillance and defenses at the Gaza … Continue reading
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Fine Tuning and Blunt Retooling
Lately I’ve been reading a lovely little book by Owen Gingerich, Harvard Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and History of Science. It’s titled God’s Universe, and – as you can guess – its aim is to make clear that faith and … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham and Pharaoh, Abraham's obedience, anthropic principle, asteroids and extinction, atheists vs theists, battle of gods and giants, book of Genesis, cosmic fine tuning, cultural diversity, Darwinism and Evolutionary theory, design argument, dinosaurs and the Flood, divine history, divine partnership, divine purpose, divine trial and error, evidence of design, expulsion from Eden, fine tuning argument, Garden of Eden, generation before the Flood, global culture, God's and our work in progress, God's call to Abraham, God's partnership with us, God's promise to Noah, Harvard science professor, His eye is on the sparrow, human trial and error, intelligent design vs survival of the fittest, lech lecha, Mark Twain on the bible, mass extinction, New Atheists, Noachide commandments, O-O-O God, origin of life, our partnership with God, Owen Gingerich's God's Universe, Pierre Lecomte du Nouy, Plato's war between gods and giants, postlapsarian, prelapsarian, providence versus chance, religious diversity, Sarah and Abraham, social engineering, teleological argument, Torah Study, Tower of Babel, utopian thinking, war between gods and giants
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Philosophy and Philosophy
Philosophy and Philosophy In recent months, I’ve been reading books that — if I weave them together — bestow overviews of two major branches of philosophy: Analytic Philosophy and Continental Philosophy. They have dominated the field for the last hundred … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th-century philosophy, A.J. Ayer, actors in history, Albert Camus, Albert Einstein, Alexandre Kojève, Alexandre Kojève's Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the "Phenomenology of Spirit", Analytic philosophy, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Bertrand Russell, book of Genesis, Cain and Abel, Cambridge University, Carl Hempel, Cheryl Misak’s Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers, Continental philosophy, creator/human relations, cultural diversity, cure for history, curing envy, David Edmonds's The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle, dialectic of history, end of history, envy in history, ethical statements, first fratricide, first murder, Frank Ramsey, French existentialism, Freud, Freudian psychoanalysis, G. W. F. Hegel, goal of history, Hans Reichenbach, Hegelian history, history and transcendence, history's beginning, identity quest, Jews in the Vienna Circle, Kojève’s lectures, logical empiricism, logical positivism, logical truth, Ludwig Wittgenstein, meaning of sacrifice, meaningful statements, Neo-Marxism, oppressed and oppressor, Otto Neurath, philosophy in Vienna, philosophy of history, philosophy of science, post-Darwinian era, pre-history, problematic of history, Ray Monk’s Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius, relation to truth, rhetoric of equality, Rudolph Carnap, same and other, stages of history, statements about cosmogony, statements about probabilities, statements about unobservables, struggle for prestige, The Vienna Circle, timeless truth, two branches of philosophy, unreal cities, verifiable fact, verification principle, Vienna, Vienna Circle manifesto, Werner Heisenberg
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What About the Jews?
What About the Jews? Over yesterday and today has hung the heavy cloud of the shooting in the Pittsburgh synagogue. The feelings that settled over me immediately were desolation and isolation. Plus a welling up of the fright and sense … Continue reading
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“Clothes”
“Clothes” Clothes are a much bigger subject than is generally supposed. I often say, “It doesn’t matter what happens, so long as you’re dressed for it.” I suspect more than a few women would agree with me. The work of … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam, book of Genesis, Chanel, clothes, Clothing, Evil, fashion, God, good and evil, holy man, India, Indian Holy Man, naked, original sin, saints, social constraints, Vedic tradition, Video Games
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