It was a gloomy day sometime in 1640, or at least, I like to imagine it was a gloomy, quiet day in Europe when Descartes, dressed still in his nightgown, sat down in front of his softly cackling fireplace and drew his ink bottle and paper towards him to compose the Meditations on First Philosophy.
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Starting Points
Posted in God and Theology, Philosophy in General, tagged a priori, absolute, Anselm, Argument, axioms, Descartes, disprovable, existence, God, Jordan, Meditations on First Philosophy, of, ontological, ontology, provable, reason, self on 4 April, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Truth is Subjectivity: Existential Epistomology
Posted in Existentialism and Authenticity, Philosophy in General, tagged a priori, Descartes, epistomology, evangalism, evangelize, evangelizing, existentialism, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, objective, objectivity, subjective, subjectivity, Truth on 11 March, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I have had people get very confused listening to me discuss – with ardent passion – the absolute nature of reason, and then lapse quietly into existential pathos about the subjectivity of meaning.
And rightly so.
Epistemology is something that has a special meaning for me, as the problem of knowledge is precisely the thing that got [...]
