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Author specializing in ancient philosophy and theology

• Judeo-Christian Cosmology: A Comparative Perspective

  By snowconenyc on 2018-10-09 • ( 9 )

  

  The primary source for Judeo-Christian cosmology is can be found in the early part of the Bible[1], primarily in Genesis of course[2].  The challenge when looking at the Bible from a purely academic and historical perspective however, is that one… Read More ›

• The Hetu and Luoshu Diagrams: Numerology in Chinese Antiquity

  By snowconenyc on 2018-04-08 • ( 1 )

  

  One of the most fascinating texts from antiquity is the I Ching, i.e. Yijing, one of the oldest extant documents in Chinese history and certainly one of the oldest philosophical treatise that we have in existence today.  The document is… Read More ›

• The Snow Cone: It All Rests On Faith

  By snowconenyc on 2018-01-06 • ( 4 )

  

  Charlie thought some more about this idea of cause and effect, this underlying law of all subject-object metaphysics as Pirsig[1] defined it.  This premise that in fact reality was represented only by things you could touch, see, taste or hear;… Read More ›

• Religion and Politics: Separating Oil from Water

  By snowconenyc on 2017-12-24 • ( 8 )

  

  Searching for a a simple progression or development of monotheistic religions in the ancient world is no easy exercise by any standards.  Monotheism clearly had tentacles that stretched far back into the dawn on civilized man, at least as far… Read More ›

• Metaphysics in the Quantum Era

  By snowconenyc on 2017-11-20 • ( 4 )

  

  Thankfully we do not have to recreate the wheel to in order to try and formulate a more global and holistic intellectual paradigm through which we at least have a chance to address some of these persistent and global problems… Read More ›

• Aristotle’s Metaphysics and Theology: On Being, the First Mover and Love (Eros)

  By snowconenyc on 2017-11-10 • ( 0 )

  

  One of the most preeminent philosophical principles that underpins Western thought, one of the foundational presumptions of modern Science in fact, is the notion of causality, or what we refer to more specifically within the context of 20th century Science… Read More ›

• The Import and Legacy of Immanuel Kant’s Philosophy

  By snowconenyc on 2017-10-28 • ( 11 )

  

  Kant as the Third Teacher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), the famous German philosopher and perhaps the most influential Western philosopher in the modern era, wrote at the end of the Enlightenment Era, and it is in fact from his works that… Read More ›