Showing posts with label idealism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label idealism. Show all posts
Friday, June 1, 2018

Marx Wartofsky on Diderot

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I wrote the following on 1 June 1015; only a few words have been changed here. I fortuitously stumbled on this today, coincidentally after ...
Sunday, May 27, 2018

Wicked Company: Holbach's salon, Diderot, & friends (4)

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This is the final installment of my review of  A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment by Philipp Blom...
Friday, October 1, 2010

Bertrand Russell on the fusion of science & religion

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Russell, Bertrand. The Scientific Outlook . London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1954 (based on 2nd ed., 1949; 1st ed, 1931). In Chapter...
Saturday, August 21, 2010

Generative Anthropology: BS alert!

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Is there any end to the pseudo-intellectual diarrhea excreted from France? Is there any academic discipline more devoid of integrity than an...
Friday, May 21, 2010

Julian Huxley revisited (2)

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I recall a certain fuzziness and eclecticism in Huxley's thought. This might be an English thing, but it's Huxley in any case. At le...
Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Julian Huxley revisited

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Many years ago (decades, most likely) I read two of Julian Huxley's books: Religion without Revelation and Knowledge, Morality, and Des...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Shaw on Ibsenism

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The second edition of The Quintessence of Ibsenism (1913) by George Bernard Shaw can easily be found on Google books, e.g. via the link pro...
Saturday, February 21, 2009

Trotsky on religion (2): literature, idealism, vitalism

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Trotsky, like some of his peers, could exhibit an acute and subtle philosophical dissection of ideological issues. Note this extract, for ex...
Thursday, February 19, 2009

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950): from realism to mysticism

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In my post on Gary Sloan, I linked to his interesting article: George Bernard Shaw: Mystic or Atheist? At the same time I discovered th...