Ancient world and lists

by | Mar 26, 2020 | Uncategorized

I will often listen to something while I’m eating breakfast. Lately, it’s been the Lotus Sutra. On the same day that there was a list of names in the daily reading for morning prayer, I heard this passage from the sutra from the parable of the burning...

Steven Pinker is frustrating me as usual 3/14/20

by | Mar 14, 2020 | Uncategorized

Sitting at home instead of on a plane to Ireland today. All the gigs have been cancelled. All the international trips have been cancelled. So I hit a downward spiral and listened to Robert Wrights interview with Steven Pinker. There is hardly a thinker alive that...

Rabbi Sacks gets it wrong

by | Mar 10, 2020 | Uncategorized

Normally, Jonathan Sacks is one of my favorite thinkers, and he’s also normally pretty careful. He gets a couple things wrong in his recent essay. I’ve reprinted part of it below. “Some measure of the radicalism that is introduced into the world by...

3/9/20 pan-psychism

by | Mar 9, 2020 | Uncategorized

Listened to Robert Wright interview Galen Strawson about pan-psychism. I think David Bentley Hart is correct on this. The pan-psychists are trying to solve the problem by mashing it down to the sub-atomic level, but it’s really just a shell game. The horizon is...