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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: 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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