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Eyes Of You And Me—Mirrored In the Eye Of God
What We Have Here Is A Spinoza Monism With A Mobius Twist—God Existing Inside Out In the process of writing this paper I have deliberately refrained from using religious/spiritual language to describe freedom’s synchronic axis. And, indeed, I suppose one … Continue reading
The Why Questions—Why We Can’t Live Without Them
The Difference Between Deep and Surface Structure In his introductory chapter on structuralism Michael Lane informs us: “Probably the most distinctive feature of the structuralist method is the emphasis it gives to wholes, to totalities. Traditionally, in Anglo-American social science, … Continue reading
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Tagged Cassirer (liberation), Chomsky (linguistic units), ethics/morality, Foucault (power/knowledge relationships), Gödel (Incompleteness proof), language, Levi-Strauss (binary opposition), life, myth, Piaget (content/form interdependence), postaday, postaday2011, Sartre (for-itself consciousness), Saussure (language context), science, self-consciousness
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Is Identity Somehow Intrinsic Within Reality Or Is It Man Made?
Thanks for this question Morpheus. In answering your question I am actually able to communicate some of the philosophy that took me years to develop. This question is especially meaningful to me. Identity/structure is intrinsic in nature and mind. I … Continue reading
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Tagged Cassirer, epistemology, hidden code, language, Levi-Strauss, Mead, philosophy, Piaget, postaday, postaday2011, Psychology, reason, sociology, structuralism
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Jean Paul Sartre
Innate Structuring Capacity—Reciprocal Movement Jan. ’12 Reciprocal Movement, –The Carrier Of Free Thought, The Same Free Thought That Brings Into Being Language, Myth, Science, Ethics, And Civilization Identifying Sartre’s philosophy as structuralism is, I am aware, pushing the envelope. However, … Continue reading
Pursuit Of Self-Liberation
The Evolution Of Symbolic Forms Jan. ’80 Myth, or the mythical-religious consciousness of man, for Cassirer, is understood to be the proto-reality out of which symbolic forms evolve e.g. language, art, religion, science etc. These symbolic forms, in turn, are … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Cassirer, conditioned reality, culture, language, magic, mind, myth, postaday2011, religion, ritual, science, symbolic form
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The Medium–Universe, Life, Language–Is The Message
Conversation Continued Banff Bar “Oh, really,” said Mike. “So tell me, what exactly are animals capable of?” “Animals communicate. There’s was nothing new there,” Dain responded, “that is what sensation brings to experience. But the human animal apprehends sensation through … Continue reading
Believe-A Win Win Situation
Banff Barroom Philosophy Under cloudy skies the next day we were walking in Banff’s downtown area of when we heard a ratty- tat -tat on a windowpane. When we turned to see what it was, we saw Dain’s smiling face … Continue reading
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Tagged belief, communication, language, Pascal's wager, postaday2011, reincarnation
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