I spent a good part of the Thanksgiving Weekend trying to puzzle out how the disparities in the world view that 21st century folk entertain and the world view of the Pilgrims cash out for the problem of gratitude ( Read more... )

The way I reconstruct the world, Kant was right in splitting the epistomological infrastructure into the two roots of Begriff (concept) and Anschauung (perception) and fixing their difference with the dictum of "Never shall the twain meet." This drove the Romantics coming after him batty, and Schelling, Hegel et al wasted a good chunk of their ( Read more... )

I had lunch with the minister of our church at a Korean restaurant (his first time), and we had a jolly good time geeking off on theological matters. We talked a little bit about the children (he is neither married nor has any himself), about the role of Mormonism in my dissertation, and about the book he has been slaving on for over a decade (he ( Read more... )