The conflict of active and passive urgency in the normal personality and the relationship of that conflict to root/branch intellectual type and past/future motivational orientation. Let me start with… more →
wrote 10 months ago: In the series of extracts I am publishing from my book-that-is-almost-finished on the history of mor … more →
wrote 11 months ago: I wanted to do a post on ethics and morality. Many people say that if you don’t believe in God, you … more →
wrote 1 year ago: “Morality is a collective illusion foisted upon us by our genes”—Michael Ruse [The following was pre … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Take a look at two atheists who try to affirm that morality is simultaneously objective and subjecti … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Here’s Casey Luskin’s analysis of Harvard evolutionary psychologist Marc D. Hauser, from … more →
wrote 3 years ago: I ran into an article the other day, that seemed to support my contention that morality is indepen … more →
wrote 3 years ago: American philosophy was a product of the Modern Age that had its precursor with the Italian Renaissa … more →
wrote 3 years ago: A continuous view of the universe seems to inherently evoke an ethical compulsion. When the boundari … more →
wrote 4 years ago: By Tim Dean Free will is an illusion. There, I said it. Now, let’s move on. For it matters not … more →
wrote 4 years ago: I enjoyed a lecture at Lehigh University tonight. The presenter, Professor John Hare of Yale Univers … more →
wrote 4 years ago: This guy says we have to make room in our materialistic, secular, “all we are is matter in mot … more →