Habermas on World Order
Rummaging around the “internets” I found this fascinating article by Jurgen Habermas, written just after the US invasion of Iraq. While not wanting to endorse (necessarily) his defense of the UN over...
View ArticleDawkins’ Delusion
About a third of the way into The God Delusion and this line summarizes (for me) what is fundamentally wrong with this book: p.141 (my emphasis) Natural selection not only explains the whole of life;...
View ArticleHabermas on post-secular society
[Edit note: On the use of worldview colors from Spiral Dynamics, see here.] Brilliant integral essay by Habermas on the notion of post-secular society. In the best sense of the word integral. Secular...
View ArticleMore on Gadamer
From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy’s entry on Hermeneutics: Human being, Gadamer argues, is a being in language. It is through language that the world is opened up for us. We learn to know...
View Article(Dis)Proving the Necessity of God
Matthew pointed me to this article by Dennis Prager on the need for belief in God (and by God he means a conflation of the Biblical Hebraic god with the Deistic god of the US Framers). Now as a...
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