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Kalev’s Anti-Blog: A Post Scriptum: Maimonides So Close Yet So Far…
In my previous post on Maimonides’s Letter on Astrology, I noted that Leo Strauss had implied that Maimonides had accepted the philosopher’s distinction between god as a remote cause the affects of proximate cause on human beings. I had thought … Continue reading
Posted in astrology, Cosmology, Leo Strauss, Philosophy
Tagged accidental, actual, Aristotle, convention, conventional, efficient cause, essential, final cause, formal cause, four cause, Letter on Astrology, Maimonides, material cause, mutakallimum, natural, nature, particular, Philosophy, potential, proximate cause, remote cause, separate intelligences, The City and Man, theos, tort law, Treatise on the Art of Logic, universal
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Kalev’s Anti-Blog: Maimonides’ ‘Letter on Astrology,’ Leo Strauss, and Some Luck
By Kalev Pehme For my friend Scott Alexander, one of the best readers of Maimonides; may he get the recognition he well deserves… One realizes when reading Maimonides’s Letter on Astrology, a comparatively short work, that it is an immensely … Continue reading
Posted in astrology, Cosmology, Leo Strauss, Philosophy, Slow and Close Reading
Tagged 6:10, Alexander of Aphrodisias, angelology, angels, Aristotle, Astrology, Averroes, Book of Job, Caldeans, Canaan, chance, destruction of the Temple, diaspora, doxa, Egypt, endoxa, Epistle on Astrology, fortuna, Guide for the Perplexed, Ibn Rushd, Internet, Jerusalem, John Paul II, Jyotish, Kabbalah, karma, Letter on Astrology, luck, Machiavelli, Maimonides, Masada, Messiah, Messianaic age, Mishneh Torah, Moses, particular providence, Plato, poorvapunya, providence, Ptolemy, Rambam, Randall Jarrell, Sabeans, Sabians, schekhinah, Second Temple, separate intelligences, Song of Songs, sphere, St. Isidore, St. Isidore of Seville, Thomas Aquinas, Tiberius, Torah, tuche, tyche, Vedic astrology
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Kalev’s Anti-Blog: Math and Reality
By Kalev Pehme In one of the great books of the 20th century, Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra, Jacob Klein delineated the difference between ancient and modern mathematics. How we understand mathematics truly speaks to how we … Continue reading
Posted in Cosmology, Philosophy
Tagged Aristotle, Big Bang, Cartesian duality, Descartes, formal mathematical language, Jacob Klein, mathematics, physics, Plato, Pythagoreans, reality
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Kalev’s Anti-Blog: The Real Case Against Evolution
By Kalev Pehme This piece is dedicated to my friend Bill Oates, who asked me to write something on evolution Evolution is so accepted to be true that it cannot be questioned without social backlash. Well, there is an exception … Continue reading
Posted in Cosmology, Philosophy
Tagged biology, Cartesian duality, Darwin, Descartes, DNA, evolution, evolutionists, first life, intelligent design, life, machine, mechanics, modern science, religion
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Kalev’s Anti-Blog: The Inner and Outer Life
By Kalev Pehme Having been bed-ridden and incapacitated for a month because of the deterioration of my health, I haven’t been able to write and barely able to read. When ill, I think about a lot of different things, especially … Continue reading
Posted in Cosmology, Mythology, Philosophy
Tagged Augustine, Christianity, conscience, Descartes, god, Hegel, Heidegger, Hobbes, inner and outer life, inner life, Jesus, Jews, know thyself, mathematics, modern science, outer life, pagan, physics, Richard Sennett, Socrates
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Kalev’s Anti-Blog: Aristotle, Strauss, Pythagoras, and Hippodamus
We must imagine that Pythagoras has been summoned by the tyrant of Phliasians, Leon. By this time, Pythagoras was absorbed knowledge from Egypt, communed with Zoroaster and absorbed the wisdom of the Chaldeans, and initiated into the Orphic circles. He … Continue reading
Posted in Cosmology, Leo Strauss, Philosophy, Slow and Close Reading
Tagged 3, 40, Aristotle, Cicero, forty, Hippodamus, Pascal, Plato, Porphyry, Pythagoras, Pythagorean, Socrates
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Kalev’s Anti-Blog: Mind is Everything and Nihilism Cosmology IV
“Everything is mind,” Buddhists assert. However, this piece is not about Buddhism, but the notion that the entire cosmos is thought. In Plato’s Philebus, Socrates’ “divine mind” forms a cosmos; so this notion is not just Buddhist. Aristotle’s cosmos is … Continue reading
Posted in Cosmology, Philosophy
Tagged Buddha, Buddhists, Descartes, interdependence, language, Machiavelli, mind is everything, nihilism, symbols
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Kalev’s Anti-Blog: Infinity, Cosmology Part III
Let’s look at this idea: There is an eleventh dimension where membranes collide and with every collision another universe breaks out in a big bang. There is an infinite number of parallel universes and new ones are created all the … Continue reading
Posted in Cosmology, Philosophy
Tagged algebra, cosmology, Descartes, infinity, Jacob Klein, mathematics, physics, string theory, universe
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Kalev’s Anti-Blog: Language, Cosmology Part 2
If there is a cosmos, then language/logos is a communicative part of the cosmos. When we speak of cosmos, we mean a well-ordered whole, and if logos is a part of that, then language, including a part of … Continue reading
Posted in Cosmology, Philosophy, Slow and Close Reading
Tagged Aristotle, finite, ideas, imperceptible, infinite, language, letter, limited, perceptible, Plato, St. Thomas, the Good, unlimited
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Kalev’s Anti-Blog: Remarks on Cosmology: Part 1 The Eternal Cosmos
Ibn Rushd, known as Averroes, states in his epic Tahafut al-Tahafut (The Destruction of Destruction or Incoherence of Incoherence) that Aristotle’s great innovation was the speculation that the cosmos is eternal. This notion was decried especially by the mutakallimum and … Continue reading
Posted in Cosmology, Philosophy
Tagged Aristotle, cosmology, cosmos, eide, eidos, energeia, god, Plato, prime mover, spheres, theos, thought thinking itself
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Poetry, Philosophy, Slow and Close Reading 