When the Left initiated Critical Theory a hundred years ago, their thrusts were markedly subtle. They grasped small advances by posing questions of the sort “Are you absolutely certain what you have been doing is the best course of action?” Today hardly any of their movers would recognize subtlety if they tripped over it. One …
Category: intellectual history
Mar 20 2023
The First Day Of Spring 2023
Good morning, Gentle Reader. It’s been an interesting week already, yet it’s only Monday. I’m in a “bar the doors and clean all the guns” sort of mood, but to keep things peppy around here (and to avoid involuntary commitment) I think I’ll muse over a graphic I snagged just yesterday. As is so …
Apr 15 2021
Transitions In Thought
The history of human thought has not been one of monotonic advance. There have been times and places where material rationality — i.e., the use of the methods of the physical sciences to investigate the properties of the physical world – has attempted to supplant aspects of thought that those methods cannot address. One …
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