General Philosophy
Uncategorized articles on various philosophical subjects.
- Logical Fallacies, Formal and Informal
- Clear Thinking
- Human Consciousness: the Mind—Volition, Reason, Intellect
- Emotions: Their Importance and Control
- Nobody Wants To Know The Truth
- Descent Into Postmodernist Hell
- Postmodernism, A Psychosis
- Existentialism
- Abstraction and Symbols
- Assaults on Reality and Knowledge
- The Right Way to Do the Wrong Thing
- Religion and Absolute Moral Values
- Capitalism: Not What It Used To Be
- Abelard and Universals
- Three Greeks
- Saving Science
- The Nature of Life
Exhaustive list of formal and informal fallacies.
Six principles necessary to clear correct thinking.
Explaining what the mind is, and its distinction from the feelings and emotions.
Why we have emotions and what determines them.
They prefer to remain Ignorant, Stupid, and Superstitious—Here's Why
A conversation with a man whose mind was destroyed by academia.
Analysis of a postmodernist's explanation of postmodernism.
What Is Existentialism?
Abstraction and symbols are necessary for language, but concepts are not abstractions. Correcting a destructive philosophical mistake.
The assaults on reality and knowledge in all intellectual spheres of the day that have turned the minds of men to mush.
Government failure and looking to government to solve all things.
Why a moral code of any kind cannot be a moral guide and actually prevents true morality.
Why Capitalism should no longer be used to mean a free market or free enterprise. Capitalism, today, means fascism.
During a recent exchange of comments to one of my columns, I was reminded of a point I’ve intended to document for a long time. That point has to do with the concept of universals and a much neglected twelfth century philosopher, Peter Abelard. Peter Abelard demolished the concept of Aristotelian, “forms,” but rescued the nature of concepts from what would become in, lesser minds, “nominalism,” of which most commentators falsely accuse Abelard.
Western philosophy begins with the Greeks of Miletus, in Asia Minor—Anaximander, Thales, and Anaximenes. Some of their contemporaries, and those who followed were important to the foundations of what would become known as philosophy as well, including: Pythagoras, Xenophanes, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Protagoras, Hippias, Socrates, Democritus, and Leucippus. Most of these will be addressed elsewhere. With them begins the first serious attempts to understand the world by means of reason alone, and with that attempt came two ideas, one, good, and fundamental to all intellectual enquiry from science to philosophy; the other, bad, and a mistake that has plagued philosophy ever since.
A Criticism of the Thesis in David Harriman's The Logical Leap: Induction in Physics
The Nature of Life