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Honeybees of the Invisible: Selections on Self Knowledge, now available at Amazon in paperback and Kindle. Thank you to everyone.

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Elements of an Ethics Textbook (3.1): Seven Reservations with Utilitarianism 2021-05-10
Miscellany: On beauty, science, and revolution 2021-05-05
Miscellany: on education, art, science, music, and the Tower of Babel 2021-05-02
Miscellany: On “The Danger of Fact-ist Politics” and other topics 2021-04-22
Miscellany: “Science,” “citizens,” “consumers,” and other topics 2021-04-19
Video Lecture: Science and Religion (3) and Philosophy 2021-04-18
Video Lecture: Science and Religion (2) The Essence and History of the Scientific Method 2021-04-17
Video Lecture: Science and Religion (1) Self and World 2021-04-12
Miscellany: Mary and “the Gardener”, naming as invocation and not as labelling, and other topics 2021-04-12
Video Lecture: On the Reality of Thinking 2021-04-05
Miscellany: On the scapegoat, art, science, and authenticity 2021-04-05
Mythos, Logos, and the Lamb of God: René Girard on the Scapegoat Mechanism 2021-04-04
Video Lecture: On the Myth of Prometheus, Technology, and Archetypal Fire 2021-03-28
Miscellany: Truth in art, beauty in science, and other topics 2021-03-28
Miscellany: On teleology and evolutionary theory, the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, and other topics 2021-03-22
Video Lecture: Justice and the Good in Plato’s Republic 2021-03-21
Miscellany: on evolutionary theory, knowledge, and ethics 2021-03-17
Plato’s Republic: In Defense of The Poets 2021-03-16
Video Lecture: On Knowledge as “Unforgetting” in Plato’s Meno Dialogue 2021-03-14
Miscellany: questions concerning the philosophy of science 2021-03-09
Miscellany: freedom, community, conscience, consciousness, moral relativism, and other subjects 2021-03-09
Video: The Invention of the Written Word and Plato’s “The Myth of Theuth” 2021-02-28
Miscellany: roses and “roses,” Aristotle, coronavirus 2021-02-28
Miscellany: On objective love, philosophy of science, and other subjects 2021-02-27
Miscellany: On Love 2021-02-21
Video Lecture: Love and Wisdom in Plato’s Symposium Dialogue 2021-02-19
Miscellany: “Happy is he who knows the causes of things” 2021-02-19
Video Lecture: On Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” 2021-02-15
Miscellany: infants, pigeons, “critical thinking” 2021-02-15
Miscellany: on the notorious “Trolley Problem,” ethics, and the equivocations of happiness 2021-02-08
Elements of an Ethics Textbook (5): Virtue Ethics 2021-02-05
Elements of an Ethics Textbook (4): Deontology 2021-02-05
Elements of an Ethics Textbook (3): Utilitarianism 2021-02-03
Elements of an Ethics Textbook (2): Normative Ethics 2021-02-03
Miscellany: liberalism, knowledge, ethics 2021-01-30
Elements of an Ethics Textbook (1): Introduction 2021-01-30
Miscellany: Enneagrammatic types as ratios and questions about ethics 2021-01-16
Margaret Fuller’s “A Credo,” composed as a letter to a friend in 1842 2020-12-17
Miscellany: stereotypes, statistics, scapegoats and so on 2020-12-11
Miscellany: (1) lying, (2) Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, (3) Corona lockdowns, (4) “a house divided,” (5) the concept a health 2020-12-04
New Publication: The Redemption of Thinking 2020-12-02
Miscellany: on conscience and community 2020-11-23
Miscellany: on community 2020-11-19
Correspondences: on conscience and the inner law 2020-11-10
Miscellany: on freedom and scientific determinism 2020-11-10
Miscellany: Equality, equity, inalienable rights 2020-11-08
Video: Conversation with Debbie Elliott on Rudolf Steiner and how to see with our spiritual eyes in these interesting times 2020-11-01
New publication: Scattered Leaves 2020-11-01
Miscellany: theory, evidence, and observation and commentaries on various issues and parables 2020-10-26
Miscellany: “Observation and evidence…and theory” 2020-10-21
Video: On The Objectivity of Ideas 2020-10-18
Video: The Parable of the Chariot and the Problem of Knowledge 2020-10-16
Miscellany: “Ethics and technics” 2020-10-11
Video: Technology and the Myth of Prometheus 2020-10-09
Video: Conversation with Debbie Elliott on Rudolf Steiner and the Archangel Michael 2020-10-09
Video: Dreaming and Wakefulness, and Technology in the Myth of Thoth 2020-10-05
Miscellany: “debate and/or dialogue” 2020-10-05
Miscellany: “critical thinking” 2020-09-30
Two Poems 2020-09-28
Cloak and Dagger: Some observations on an interesting pattern in the contemporary Zeitgeist 2020-09-28
Logic in Arguments About Atheism II 2020-09-25
Logic in arguments about atheism 2020-09-24
Correspondences: On dualism and its opposite 2020-09-21
Poem: “You, lark of the morning” 2020-09-21
Correspondences: On Realism, Magical Realism, and Psychedelics 2020-09-19
Poem: “And is that not the carpenter’s son?” 2020-09-07
Correspondences: On Trust and Knowledge 2020-09-07
Correspondences: On Corona and Causality, and on Conspiracy, Censorship and Critical Thinking 2020-09-07
On Adam & Eve II 2020-09-07
Poem: “How is it we can smile…” 2020-09-05
Correspondences: On Moral Relativism and Scapegoating 2020-09-05
Poem: In memoriam 2020-09-02
Michaelmas Poem: “Fellowship of the Setting Sun” 2020-08-31
Poem: “Autumn’s sentinels” 2020-08-25
Plato and the Poets 2020-08-24
Is the Earth flat? 2020-08-18
On “Conscience” and “Conscious” 2020-08-05
A critique of “Plato was right: Earth is made, on average, of cubes” 2020-07-22
On communities, hierarchy, and Go(o)d 2020-07-22
On The Book of Job (2) 2020-07-17
On The Book of Job (1) 2020-07-17
On the eucharist of symbolism 2020-07-11
Correspondences: On love 2020-07-09
On the sublimation of speech 2020-07-08
More on the spectrum of the will and its translumination by consciousness 2020-06-30
Moral evolution and the translumination of the will with consciousness 2020-06-28
What is the effect of certain forms of art on the psyche and the evolution of consciousness? 2020-06-27
On Adam & Eve 2020-06-25
On virtue, the ethics of dialogue, and biography 2020-06-24
On decision and the love of wisdom 2020-06-21
Thesis Disputation: “The Redemption of Thinking: A Study in Truth, Knowledge, and the Evolution of Consciousness with Special Reference to Goethe, Barfield, & Steiner” 2020-05-21
Poem: “…for spring is here” 2020-05-17
Poem: “Did you ever wonder?” 2020-05-15
Article on Owen Barfield and the Evolution of Consciousness published in Cosmos & History Journal 2020-05-09
On Rudolf Steiner’s The Philosophy of Freedom (3): Thinking, Freedom, & Love 2020-04-23
On Rudolf Steiner’s The Philosophy of Freedom, Part II 2020-04-21
On Rudolf Steiner’s The Philosophy of Freedom, Part I 2020-04-20
A Short Exchange On the Parable of the Cave and the Parable of the Blind Men and the Elephant 2020-04-19
Video Lecture: Moral Reasoning and Concluding Thoughts 2020-04-17
Video Lecture: On AI and Human Freedom 2020-04-14
Is COVID-19 proof that God is wrothful or that he does not exist? 2020-04-14
A Brief Reflection on COVID-19 & 5G 2020-04-12
Mythos & Logos (3): The Scapegoat and the Lamb of God 2020-04-11
Caritas and Biography: Two Exhortations 2020-04-11
Video: Mind & Brain 2020-04-09
Mythos & Logos (2): Mimetic Desire, Violence, and the Scapegoat 2020-04-08
Poem: Vision of the Rood 2020-04-08
Mythos & Logos (1): Saturn, Jupiter, and René Girard 2020-04-07
Video: Prometheus & Archetypal Fire 2020-04-06
An Offering of Video Lectures 2020-04-05
Poem: 2020-04-03
Poem: “Dream of Summer” 2020-04-01
Of silks and wisdom 2020-03-31
Corona and the Crucible 2020-03-23
(no title) 2020-03-22
An Encounter, or “How I Became a Philosopher” 2020-03-16
An article published in Hermes magazine on the nature of initiation and the significance of the Incarnation of Christ 2020-02-22
Why I Support Tulsi Gabbard’s Bid for President 2020-02-12
Letter Fragments on the Evolution of Consciousness 2020-02-11
Pro Levitatem: An Appeal to Rolfers to Re-introduce the Concept of Levity to our Paradigm 2020-02-08
Poem: “But now the starry conferences adjourning” 2020-01-11
Poem: “Arise my love, and come away,” or “to the New Year” 2020-01-01
Poem: “Living tabour, singing chime” 2019-12-30
Poem: “Firstborn of Creation: Light” 2019-12-24
Sonnet (12): “Therefore, send me…” 2019-12-21
Two Winter Poems 2019-12-20
Sonnet (11): “Lo! I will be with you always” 2019-12-14
Nine short verses, daughters of the Autumn Muses 2019-12-09
“Before the world was made I knew her” 2019-12-06
“The Light of the World” 2019-11-19
Sonnet (10): “These verses lifted from the stream of time…” 2019-11-04
An attempt to answer a question that I have contemplated for years 2019-11-01
Sonnet (9): The Gold of the Alpha & the Omega 2019-10-23
Consciousness and its Transfiguration (3): The Reversal of the Will and its Apotheosis 2019-10-21
Consciousness and its Transfiguration (2): Second Enhancement, the Reverse-Will, Narcissism 2019-10-20
Consciousness and its Transfiguration (1): Introduction, Preliminaries, Ordinary Consciousness and the First Enhancement 2019-10-18
A Vision of Sophia, Michaël, and the Dragon 2019-09-29
Bread or Stones: To what degree does modern physics take reality as its object? Now in English, Español, et Français! 2019-09-27
Sonnet (8): Harvest Moon 2019-09-20
A Critique of Chris Firth’s Aeon essay “Our illusory sense of agency has a deeply important social purpose” 2019-09-19
Sonnet (7): Storm-Crow 2019-09-15
Sonnet (6): The Goldening Hour 2019-09-10
“Soul Longing”: translation of Goethe’s “Selige Sehnsucht” 2019-08-29
Sonnet (5): “Grant me end-of-summer’s silken thread” 2019-07-31
On Truth (5): The Redemption of Thinking 2019-07-17
On Truth (4): Scientia & Sapientia, and the Causes of Post-Truth 2019-07-16
On Truth (3): Nietzsche, Plato, Cartesius, Kant 2019-07-13
On Truth (2): Steiner & Barfield 2019-07-12
On Truth (1): Introduction, Mythos, Lógos 2019-07-12
Two Sonnets (3 & 4), to Sadness 2019-07-09

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