From an ontological perspective, a term that was coined only in the last century or two to denote a specific branch of philosophy related to being, or reality itself, in deep antiquity our ancestors simply had myth. Various tales and… Read More ›
Philosophy
Vedānta and Brahmavidyā: The Wisdom of the Rishis
One of, if not the, unique contributions of the Indo-Aryan people[1], to which Vedānta (the philosophical foundations of Hinduism) and Buddhism ultimately owe their heritage, is the importance they place, and fundamental belief in, what is variously referred to in the Western theological… Read More ›
Chinese Philosophy: Back to the Beginning
Given the rapid globalization and synthesis of all human thought that is occurring throughout the world today as more and more Eastern works are translated and transliterated into Western languages and are the topic of much intellectual pursuit by not… Read More ›
Subject-Object Metaphysics and Quality: A Reformulation of Logical Positivism
Subject-object metaphysics, the reality doctrine of modern day, with the apex of thought represented by the highest levels of abstraction in mathematics and Theoretical Physics, has its origins as a reaction, a parallel conception of the nature of the universe, to… Read More ›
Modern Psychology: Freudian and Jungian Perspectives
It must be understood that Psychology as a discipline, at least how we think of it today, did exist in antiquity. There were fairly well thought systems of belief however that framed Psychology, the study of the Soul, within the context… Read More ›
Interpretations of Quantum Theory: Physics Meets Philosophy
If one believes in the power of mathematics to describe the universe, as the language of God so to speak, a notion which underpins all of Physics in the post Enlightenment Era as reflected in the two pillars of modern Physics, namely… Read More ›
The View from the West: The History of Objective Realism
The East-West division with respect to worldviews and ways of thinking clearly has significant limits in interpretative utility despite its proliferation and widespread use in the academic and intellectual community, in the West in particular. Having said that it is… Read More ›
The Metaphysics of Morality: Kantian Cognitive Ontology
The Enlightenment no doubt represents one of the most transformative periods in the history of civilization. While it was primarily an intellectual (really philosophical) movement, with a locus in 8th century Europe, it is rooted in intellectual developments that took… Read More ›
The Age of Enlightenment: The Philosophy of Science
Ever since the dawn of civilization mankind has created mythological, semantic and metaphysical paradigms within which the nature of existence and knowledge itself, along with the underlying order of the heavens and the earth and all its creatures within it,… Read More ›
The Beginning: Charlie and the Dream
He was on this monstrous bridge. It didn’t connect one place to another place though, as bridges normally do. It just existed in space. In this magnificent, neverending sky. A sky that surrounds the bridge. A sky that surrounded everything…. Read More ›
The Seeds of Christianity: The Hellenization of Judaism
Two of the most influential Greek philosophical traditions in antiquity, in both the Hellenic period as well as the period of Roman influence and domination, were Stoicism and Epicureanism, the former of which exerted considerable influence on early Christian theology, which in… Read More ›
Stoicism: Naturalism, Corporealism and Logos
In the period of philosophical development that arose as the influence of the Greek culture bled into the period of Roman/ Latin dominance in the Mediterranean and Near East, both the Stoic as well as the Epicurean philosophic schools rose… Read More ›
Aristotle’s Metaphysics: Causality and Theology in Antiquity
Aristotle is arguably one of, if not the, most influential philosophers in the history of Western civilization, outlining in painstaking detail not only a fully formed and comprehensive system of reason and logic, but also a comprehensive system metaphysics, what some… Read More ›
Hellenic Theo-Philosophy: From Mythos to Logos
So from what intellectual and socio-political and cultural context did the works and schools of Plato and Aristotle emerge? Where did their ideas come from, even if they are altogether unique in their language, tenets and ideas and even if… Read More ›
The Indo-Europeans: The Grandparents of Philosophy
There has been and continues to be much scholarly debate as to what extent the classical Greek philosophical tradition, what we call Hellenic philosophy herein, which classically begins with a study of the so-called “Pre-Socratics”, the bulk of which are… Read More ›
