Archive for the ‘Epistemology’ Category

December 9, 2009 1

Theses on Mysticism and Dialectic

By Robert Minto in Epistemology, Learning, Mystery, Thinking, Virtue

(Courtesy of the prompting of Maimonides, Yair Lorberbaum, Karl Barth, and my all-nighter—on whom be no blame for the result.)

Mysticism and dialectic share a willingness to suspend the certainty and comfort of dogmatic pronouncement for better things. Mysticism refuses to degrade the divine by insisting that one apparently mutually exclusive truth disproves another, while dialectic [...]

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December 3, 2009 4

The Predicament of the Modern Subject (Taylor)

By Robert Minto in Epistemology, Man

Having some free time this evening, I took the opportunity to begin reading Charles Taylor’s Hegel. I found his set up of Hegel’s context immensely interesting—especially as a coherent jumping-off point for further thought. Taylor asserts that Hegel’s whole philosophy is—put most economically—a vast attempt to solve a problem of “the nature of human subjectivity [...]

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