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Author specializing in ancient philosophy and theology

• 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 ›

• History and Heritage of Meditation as a Mystical Art

  By snowconenyc on 2017-09-30 • ( 1 )

  

  Meditation, in the context of the fairly lengthy discussions and treatment of this specific discipline, or practice, throughout this work (primarily through an Indian theo-philosophical lens) is a fundamentally aspect of, a core component of as it were,  the mystical… Read More ›

• The Game of Kings, Kipling, and Ritual: Strange Bedfellows

  By snowconenyc on 2017-09-10 • ( 3 )

  

  What struck Charlie as he dug deeper into the extensive philosophical and metaphysical systems that were created by Plato and even more so by Aristotle was an abandonment of the faith based mythological traditions of their predecessors in lieu of… Read More ›

• The Seeker: Chasing Ghosts is published

  By snowconenyc on 2017-08-02 • ( 2 )

  

  After a work of poetry extending over a period of a few years falling under the genre of what I like to term “mystic poetry”, the bulk of which is aligned with many of the other topics related to Eastern… Read More ›

• Socrates, Plato and Aristotle: First Philosophy

  By snowconenyc on 2017-05-28 • ( 7 )

  

  Leaving aside the Indo-Aryan Vedic tradition, representing the root philosophical and religious tradition of the East, the emergence of philosophy as a branch of thought ran parallel with the advent of Ancient Greek civilization.  What was unique about this development,… Read More ›