It was almost exactly one year ago today that I started this blog so I guess this is my first anniversary post. I started the blog because I wanted to explore the relationship between classical American Philosophy and the teaching of Evolutionary Enlightenment which I have been involved with for 18 years. What I found [...]
All posts tagged American Philosophy
Cosmos, Consciousness and Culture
Posted by Jeff Carreira on January 27, 2010
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2010/01/27/cosmos-consciousness-and-culture/
Our Evolutionary Crisis
I certainly want to continue with our discussion and I want to explore the profound ideas of Charles Sanders Peirce further, but first I wanted to say a few words in general that I have been thinking about. As some of you may know I have been a student of a spiritual teacher named Andrew Cohen and [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on October 3, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/10/03/our-evolutionary-crisis/
A New American History
I was a primary and secondary school teacher for many years and one of the things that I taught was history. It always occurred to me that the way we taught history, the events and people we chose to pull out of the continuum of time, was arbitrary. At the same time, we are so [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on April 7, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/04/07/a-new-american-history/
What every American needs to know about American Philosophy
For those of us who were educated in the American school system, we all had to study American history. In our history classes we learned about the founding fathers, their ideas and how they led the American Revolution. We also learned about the Civil War and how the institution of Slavery was finally dismantled. We [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on March 26, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/03/26/what-every-american-needs-to-know-about-american-philosophy/
Audio: Two Generations of American Philosophy, Part 1
Recently I gave a talk about certain aspects of the history of American Philosophy and the contemporary work of Andrew Cohen and his philosophy of Evolutionary Enlightenment. I intend to publish that talk in a series of which this audio is the first installment. In this first part of the talk I speak about what [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on February 28, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/02/28/audio-evolutionary-enlightenment-and-american-philosophy-part-1/
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Spiritual but not Religious
It is not uncommon today to find certain segments of society in America and even more so in Europe who would describe themselves as spiritual but not religious. After The Enlightenment in Europe, science and reason began to increasingly dominant the modern mind leaving religion and spirituality on the defensive throughout the Western World. Some [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on February 11, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/02/11/ralph-waldo-emerson-spiritual-but-not-religious/
My Re-introduction to American New Thought
My interest in the American philosophical tradition re-emerged a few years ago when Andrew Cohen – my spiritual teacher and the person for who I serve as personal assistant – was asked to speak at the Concord School of Philosophy. That school is a rustic wooden structure of one room with a small stage. It [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on January 31, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/01/31/my-re-introduciton-to-american-new-thought/
