First published in August 2022. Philosopher Immanuel Kant is often referred to as the god of modern philosophy. A recent work of intellectual history by Professor Michael Rosen, entitled The Shadow of God: Kant, Hegel, and the passage from heaven to history, considers the end of Christendom and the replacement of its accompanying hegemony of … Continue reading The end of time: The Heidegger-Cassirer debate and the passage from trade to war
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Human Farm
A story introduction from 2013. Hundreds, thousands: impossible to tell - even at a vantage point like this. I remember of what goes on inside, of a little girl who was sucked into one of their sub-land vacuums and whisked away into a confined, metal room. In there a voice started interrogating her. Hendrick Andriezsoon’s … Continue reading Human Farm
The realist school: An emerging paradigm
First published on 14 June 2022. Sometimes, intellectual thought undergoes a rupture that cannot be stopped. It does not matter how much you resist the conceptual tsunami, or how far you run. It will tear down what you know, and force any remaining ideas to cluster around the victorious Noah’s ark of the God-given intellectual … Continue reading The realist school: An emerging paradigm