What do Alice in Wonderland and Mr. Anderson/Neo from The Matrix have in common?
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Analytical Philosophy, Worldview Holism and Making Sense of It All
Analytical philosophy is great. I am an analytic philosopher myself.
But it also tends to “kill by dissecting”. What has been cut at its joints needs to be reassembled in order to become alive again.
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How Imagination Helps Us to ‘Look Along’
What do you do when you would like to learn or understand something, but ‘looking at’ is inadequate for that endeavor, and ‘looking along’ is not (yet) possible?
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Star Wars – A Cry For Redemption
The Star Wars galaxy cries out for redemption.
By redemption I mean a state in which everything is as it should be, and stably so: evil and darkness should not have the possibility to creep back in.
Read MoreRead MoreA sick society must think much about politics as a sick man must think much about his digestion. (…) if either comes to regard it as the natural food of the mind; if either forgets that we think of such things only in order to be able to think of something else; then what was undertaken for the sake of health has become itself a new and deadly disease.
When Politics Becomes an End Instead of a Means
“Looking along” and “Looking at”: The Two Ways of Knowing in C.S. Lewis
In his short essay “Meditation in a Toolshed” C.S. Lewis makes an extremely helpful distinction between the two fundamental ways of knowing.
He calls them looking along and looking at.
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