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Al Sharpton's Sanford
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Phillip Kitcher Takes Creationism to Task
*From the archives! You know, I never thought I'd be collecting works written in the college years... these are after all, formative. My first two years at community college produced no significant works, at least according to my records of that time, which are null. This review was written two years ago during my first semester at Wartburg ( Read more... ) -
On Merleau-Ponty
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Being Towards Death
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On Heidegger's Readiness-To-Hand
A theme that is dominant in Heidegger's work is the question of Being. The human being in particular is known as DaSein, and a more general term for all Being that exists for Heidegger is the concept of Being in the world. Everything that is in the world has a Being ( Read more... ) -
The Value of the Soul
What is greater than value ( Read more... ) -
Paying Your Dues
It is important to remember that it takes years of reflection and the proper type of analyzing in order to understand the fundamental concepts within logic. In fact, many philosophers go through phases, of levels, of philosophy, always keeping a steady thread but switching positions on vital issues within their concerns. For example, Bertrand ( Read more... ) -
A Glance at Subjective Relativism
As Husserl stated, there are various and numerous ways in which a man can contradict himself in logic, especially when it comes to the topic of reality and the basic concepts of logic, existence, and the human relation to these two concepts. He points out that the subjective relativist uses terms such as truth, falsity, and by extension existence, ( Read more... ) -
The Beauty of Contradiction
Now, in trying to show that everything is absurd, you can set it up, but you cannot prove it. Proving that everything is absurd is in itself an absurdity, which is the most fantastic of thoughts to entertain, and to infinity everything would become absurd under this system, which denies logic as a certain truth, and rather places it as a creation ( Read more... )