Scientism Is Not Science
Scientism, Science, and Technology Scientism is not science but an ideology that reduces man’s hope and aspiration to the scientific method. Scientism promises postmodern man an alarming…
Essence and Constancy: Why “Essence” Matters
The classical attitude, then, has a great respect for the past and for tradition, not from sentimental, but on purely rational grounds. It does not expect anything…
Eric Hoffer: The Longshoreman Philosopher’s Thought and Work
The American philosopher, Eric Hoffer (1902-1983), is a rare thinker. He is a philosopher in the classical sense of the word. Hoffer asks concrete and pressing questions…
Ortega y Gasset’s Philosophy of Existence in The Modern Theme
The man of the West is undergoing a process of radical disorientation because he no longer knows by what stars he is to guide his life.1 -…
Viewing Reality Through an Impressionistic Eye
"Nature here sets, even to the universal genius, a limit which it cannot pass, and truth will make martyrs so long as philosophy still holds it to…
Philosopher’s Adagio (Part II)
"I have said, in the first volume of my Gifford Lectures, The Mystery of Being, that we are living in a world which seems to be founded…
Philosopher’s Adagio: Intuition and the Apprehension of Form (Part I)
Adagio – slow and stately (literally, “at ease.”) And if truth is one of the ultimate values, it seems strange that no one seems to know what…
The Symmetrical House of Form: Aesthetics of the Lived-Experience (Part IV)
This life’s dim windows of the soul Distorts the Heavens from pole to pole, And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, no through,…
The Symmetrical House of Form: Happiness and Joy (Part III)
If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the Saints and God. - Yes; but is it not to…
The Symmetrical House of Form: The Economics of Being and The Struggle for Existence in Prehistory (Part II)
Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. - T.S. Eliot Burnt Norton[1] Prologue In…
The Symmetrical House of Form (Part I)
Substantial Form and Existential Reflection The most profound discovery of ancient Greek philosophers and by implication Western civilization is the discovery of form. Plato’s thought is a…
Camus and the Order of Human Reality
"There are no deserts. There are no more islands. Yet there is a need for them. In order to understand the world, one has to turn away…
Philosophy as Existential Creative Act
When some people hear the words philosophy, philosophize and philosopher their immediate impression is that of an abstract discipline that is often also technical in makeup. These…
Perpectivism, Form, and Objective Reality in Mies van der Rohe’s Architecture and Ortega y Gasset’s Thought
From his humble childhood in Aachen, Germany, Mies van der Rohe learned to appreciate and respect the materials that the architect has to work with. His father…
Happiness, Subjectivism, and Subjectivity
Happiness can only be experienced by individuals. While happiness can affect groups of people, its basic quality as a human emotion springs from a person's engagement with…