Huge apologies to my readers, who badger me constantly, and rightly, about the lack of posting in the last few months. As I say every time I update, a lot has been going on with me (things have been pretty tough lately) and though I have a great deal of good things half-written to put [...]
Posts Tagged ‘self’
Kierkegaard on Despair
Posted in Christianity, Existentialism and Authenticity, God and Theology, Philosophy in General, tagged death, despair, down, Kierkegaard, Philosophy, self, sickness, sin, spirit, unto, with on 1 April, 2010 | 1 Comment »
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 »
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. [...]
