A more sympathetic look at Mohammed.
An attempt to think well of Mohammed and to ascribe good motives to him in the perpetration of a forgery. Perhaps he exemplifies even more faith than Abraham. Unedited.
Continue October 31, 2009
Archives – October, 2009
Musing about the “brainarium” and the “thing on its own”.
To prove his point, my friend had to concede my point. My point was the basis for his point. He only distinguished the two objects as tree and picture of the tree, and not more precisely as two different things, which may resemble each other. He assumes rightly, and this is the task of Kant, to explain how we decide to distinguish in the way we do and to be so sure it is the “right” way.
Continue October 29, 2009
Christianity conceived as the only hope for the humans
Rambling muse of the choice between the Christian and the Buddhist, with an aside on the failure of Islam, and how my hope is exactly the opposite of the hope of many American Christians.
Continue October 26, 2009
Kant and the morally inclined atheist
Kant conceives of a morally inclined person who can fashion a world to be born into and live, and who is guided by practical reason. This would include then the atheist who professes rationality and moral intent.
Continue October 25, 2009
Musing on Kant and the gods
Looking at the natural origin of gods and the moral origin of God and how it is that Kant considers Christianity to be a moral religion.
Continue October 25, 2009
A Chinese Jesus
A parable about Jesus which echos the Koran and some Eastern thinking, but not so much traditional Christianity.
Continue October 25, 2009
A proposed defense for the two pilots who went on automatic pilot themselves. (destination Minneapolis)
The two “sleeping” pilots have done nothing that all people do, and what is called for is an alarm clock to sound in a way that is not lulling.
Continue October 24, 2009
Kant’s First Analogy and the Second Postulate
Musing about the sudden appearance of a pair of glasses on my nose, and how Kant might explain our experience of doing things on “automatic pilot”.
Continue October 24, 2009
Kant from the Moral Law to the Christian church
Concise summary of Kant’s thinking from the respect for the moral law (here premised) through the provision of a Christian church as the universal church. Not edited.
Continue October 22, 2009
A way to seduce the Islamic youth into thinking for themselves.
A plan to force the Islamic (and all) youth to think for him self (Kant’s first of his three admonitions for proper thinking).
Continue October 19, 2009