http://kantwesley.com/weblog Immanuel Kant, John Wesley & Philip Rudisill Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:08:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Toward a more precise and brief exposition of the concept the Gentile Christian. It was decided by Paul and the disciples (Acts 15) that it was a fact that the rule of love of neighbor was sufficient for the identification of all good acts. In the context of the understanding at ... http://kantwesley.com/weblog/?p=533 Mr. President, First of all I hope you are doing well. We are doing better and a lot of the credit goes to you. Here is a smart tactic that will work. We have health care reform, but we need to understand better why we have it and especially why we have ... http://kantwesley.com/weblog/?p=532 What is the highest principle of freedom? We are speaking of the union of a free people into a community. Kant himself gives us the principle of such a realm, namely the limitation of freedom by a respect for all members of that free realm. Life, liberty and the ... http://kantwesley.com/weblog/?p=531 The forthcoming battle over mandatory health insurance will be interesting and vital. How can a free people impose upon themselves a requirement to look after their own health. Suppose they don’t want to? Suppose they would rather take their own chances including compassionate aid from those who are more prosperous and ... http://kantwesley.com/weblog/?p=530 The only hope that I can find in the world is what I can find at home, namely the Christian religion as the universal religion, as the moral religion, as the uniquely moral religion. That can be established. Now the faiths which pretend to represent this universal religion in human experience ... http://kantwesley.com/weblog/?p=529 I spy the dog and see that it seems to morph into a mail box when I am close up. This is a space and time relationship of three distinct poses. There is the dog, and then there is a blurr of sorts and then there is the mailbox. The blur ... http://kantwesley.com/weblog/?p=528 I have been reading again the Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics and think I am catching on more to what Kant means with the differentiation of the specter/appearance/Erscheinung and the thing on its own. Now I just happen to be taken by the title, a preparatory grasp of the authority of ... http://kantwesley.com/weblog/?p=527 Sometimes I think I almost get it, what Kant is talking about in his Pure Reason. Sometimes I think I can almost express it, but it is very difficult because it is so obvious that it doesn’t need to be noted. I am speaking of such things as having to ... http://kantwesley.com/weblog/?p=526 I wonder about the conflict in the political body and whether there can be a compromise. I wonder about the relationship of imposed insurance (which is like a tax, I guess) and the rights of gays to marry. It seems that some would say on one side: don’t tell me what ... http://kantwesley.com/weblog/?p=525 It's getting much clearer. Space and time are just our way of looking at the appearances in the brainarium. We spy these appearances or specters and see them together, e.g., the face in the cloud or the tree. There is no necessity. The necessity we provide ourselves in the form ... http://kantwesley.com/weblog/?p=524