In response to my last post Brian asked, “Does your stated belief in ‘higherness’ include an obligation to live in accordance with it? If so, what does that look like?” It is a fair question and one that I will attempt to answer – at least with my understanding at this point. First of all [...]
All posts for the month August, 2009
Ultimate vs. Relative Intelligence
Posted by Jeff Carreira on August 30, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/08/30/ultimate-vs-relative-intelligence/
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the 20th Century
First of all I want to thank everyone for keeping the level of this virtual conversation so high and so philosophically minded. Now that we have opened up a discussion about Science and Spirituality I would like to add a little more historical context to frame it. During the time of the Middle Ages Christianity [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on August 26, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/08/26/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-20th-century/
Science vs. Spirituality
My mind is still not up to full speed after being on retreat, but I am thrilled by all of the back and forth on the topic of spirituality. It is, as we can see, a particularly charged area of discussion. And given that part of my purpose is to look at things through the [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on August 24, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/08/24/science-vs-spirituality/
Spirituality and American Philosophy
Ok so here is where I start getting myself into trouble… I want to open up the question of spirituality. And I think that question can be raised as, “Given our scientific understanding of reality, is there any validity to “spirituality?” Before I start to explore this question directly I wanted to present a little [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on August 19, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/08/19/spirituality-and-american-philosophy/
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Conception of Nature
The Pragmatic definition of truth may have deep roots in American thought, but to uncover the metaphysical conception that is the ground under Pragmatism’s feet we should look one generation earlier into the mind of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson’s Transcendentalism, which recognizes intuition and not logic as the ultimate source of wisdom, stands in opposition [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on August 15, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/08/15/ralph-waldo-emerson%e2%80%99s-conception-of-nature/
If Pragmatism was so great, what happened to it?
Pragmatism was a powerful force in World Philosophy during the early decades of the twentieth century. Then the First World War erupted, followed by the Great Depression, and later the horror of the Second World War. With these events, the progressive modernism, of which Pragmatism was surely a part, began to fall out of favor. [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on August 2, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/08/02/if-pragmatism-was-so-great-what-happened-to-it/
