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[CPI Seminars] [CPI Lyceum Platform] Two momentous intellectual events occurred in 1879: Wilhelm Wundt founded the first formal laboratory for psychological research at the University of Leipzig, and Pope Saint Leo XIII released the encyclical Aeterni Patris, which exhorted the retrieval and teaching of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Catholic universities. The first, while a legitimate and …
ANNOUNCING the Continuum Philosophical Insight Lyceum: bringing thinking beyond academia through the digital paradigm. A brief post summarizing an argument for better digital habits. The internet stormed into many of our lives—and has always been there for some others of us—without a careful consideration of what it is, culturally speaking, or what it does to …
Lots has been happening behind the scenes on the Continuum front (and a related project). The major development--to drop a little tease--is a new digital platform for philosophical engagement and habit-building. It's still a little ways away from launching officially, but I'm excited about the prospects. Aside from that, I have several other updates: First, …
We're four weeks into the pilot seminars and results, so far, feel mixed. Immediate attrition hit and several people, clearly not enthused, dropped out and away. This is to be expected; I am not trying to appeal to everyone, but to the persons for whom this kind of education will be most fruitful. That said, …
The following is a reflection from some surplus notes to tonight's reading for the Aquinas Seminar. How do we pursue wisdom and attain truth? It is not an easy, simple, straightforward, linear task. It is a difficult, complex, windy, recursive process, wherein the chief obstacle is ourselves and our tendency to presume we know more …
Another week, another 15 Minute Insight video; this time on the meaning of "truth". Today, speaking very broadly, most theories of truth fall into one of two camps. The first, the more traditional camp, sees truth as somehow revelatory of or correspondent with reality as independent of our cognitive activity. The most well-known such theory …
[Update 5/9: see below for new pricing and participant caps.] Beginning next month, I will be conducting two online seminars: Thomas Aquinas: Wisdom and Synthesis To understand the thought of Thomas Aquinas is to grasp concepts far removed from the ways of thinking common today. In few issues is this more obvious than Thomas’ cosmological …
Continue reading "[UPDATE 5/9] Two Upcoming Seminars: Aquinas & Heidegger"
The Sophist takes refuge in the darkness of not-being, where is at home and has the knack of feeling his way, and it is the darkness of the place that makes him so hard to perceive… Whereas the philosopher, whose thoughts constantly dwell upon the nature of reality, is difficult to see because his region …
