Whitehead’s argument is not that space and time don’t exist: they are simply secondary appearances, not the main feature of objective reality. In denouncing the fallacy of simple location Whitehead is asserting that no entity, nor any man, is an island. Every time we move, or think, we disturb the whole universe. As St. Paul…
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An Epistle About Parenting
Just a follow-up to our discussion on parenting, which I really liked; needless to say, it’s a subject that I’m consumed with at the moment. I wanted to send along a link to a blog post I wrote on authoritarianism in parenting, and a link to the book I was telling you all about, Parent…
Charles Olson reads ‘Letter # 41 [broken off]’ (Mar 1966)
Mumford & Sons, Descartes & Unchanging Substances part 2
And death is at your doorstep And it will steal your innocence But it will not steal your substance Above is an excerpt from the song Timshel by Mumford and Sons, the folk rock band from the UK which continues to grow exponentially in adoration. Put simply, I find their music to be exceedingly brilliant….
Why We Believe in Causation
“I push and the world pushes back. If I am struck, I feel the presentational immediacy of pain constructed by my nerves and brain, but I experience that pain with and arising out of the physical causal energy of what strikes me. A flying rock carries physical force, and that force is the ground of…
Love neither rules, nor is it unmoved
Love neither rules, nor is it unmoved; also it is a little oblivious to morals. It dwells upon the tender elements of the world which slowly and in quietness operate by love. –Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, 353 Painting by Mark Lawrence