As I have read through Emerson’s writing I see two aspects to his metaphysics. On the one hand he describes a spiritual Realism in which the collective human soul of humanity exists in a transcendent and exalted form. Spiritual development involves finding this higher soul, or Over-Soul as Emerson called it, in our own experience [...]
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Spiritual Realism and Process Philosophy
Posted by Jeff Carreira on June 17, 2010
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2010/06/17/spiritual-realism-and-process-philosophy/
From the Enlightenment to the Romantic Revolution
For a time the rationality of the Enlightenment seemed to hail the final triumph of human reason. Soon the laws that operated behind the universe would all be known and humakind would be able to create the future it wanted. At least that is how it seemed for a while. If Copernicus is the most [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on March 7, 2010
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2010/03/07/from-the-enlightenment-to-the-romantic-revolution/
A Brief Stop at the Human Intersection
If you think about the Universe as a vast unknown then you can think about human knowledge and understanding about the universe as the “human intersection with the universe.” Our knowledge about, and understanding of, the universe is exactly where we as conscious beings intersect with the universe. Many of the fundamental polarities that have [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on September 22, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/09/22/a-brief-stop-at-the-human-intersection/
Test Drive a Worldview
To respond to Andy, I knew that I was getting myself into some trouble by oversimplifying and over-generalizing philosophy and breaking it down into metaphysics, epistemology and ethics. I was lumping things, like logic into epistemology and aesthetics into ethics (which I probably would have been better off calling values theory.) I also regret using the [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on September 16, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/09/16/test-drive-a-worldview/
