Tag: philosophy
Freshman Falstaff vs. Professor Darwin Dawkins
The light of the body is the eye: If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! ~ Matthew 6:22-23 Prologue […]
Canterbury and the Tales of America
“We are shaped by what we love.” “For if a priest be foul, on whom we trust, No wonder is a common man should rust.” ~Geoffrey Chaucer Prologue This essay is on the timeless collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury tales in London England during the 14th-15th centuries. I have found that many of […]
On William James: the father of psychology
Belief creates the actual fact. Truth is what works. Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is. ~ William James Biography of William James William James (January 11, 1842 – […]
On Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov
Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile. Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain. ~ Dostoyevsky Biography of Dostoyevsky Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (11 November 1821–9 February 1881), was a Russian novelist, polemicist, philosopher, […]
On Leo Tolstoy: war and peace or war and appeasement?
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness. ~ Leo Tolstoy –Biography of Tolstoy Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy […]
Picasso: psychotic pervert or iconic genius?
Art is a lie that tells the truth. I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting. ~ Picasso Prologue to Picasso: Psychotic or Iconic? On my Facebook page last week I poised a series of perhaps rhetorical questions regarding the Spanish-French painter, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). I asked: “Is Picasso a great artistic genius […]
On Karl Marx and the First Principles of Evil
The first battlefield is to rewrite history. Anyone who know anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included. ~ Karl Marx Biography of Marx Karl Marx (5 May 1818–14 March 1883) was […]
On Melville’s Moby Dick and the obsession of self-will
It is not down in any map; true places never are. There is a wisdom that is woe, but there is a woe that is madness. ~ Melville Biography of Melville Herman Melville (1819–1891) was an American poet, novelist, writer of short stories, and a leading figure of the American Renaissance period. His most celebrated […]
Book Review – In the Beginning: And Other Essays on Intelligent Design
Editor’s note: The following is excerpted from the new expanded second edition of Granville Sewell’s book In the Beginning: And Other Essays on Intelligent Design (Discovery Institute Press). ENV contributor Dr. Sewell is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas El Paso. He has written three books on numerical analysis, and is the author […]
Magna Carta: 800 years of natural law
o no one will we sell [no slavery], to no one will we refuse or delay right or justice. ~ Magna Carta In questions of power, then, let no more be said of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution. ~ Jefferson Prologue to the forgotten Magna […]
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