Rethinking the Nature of Substance

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Tag: realism

  • Twelve Ways to Overcome Onesidedness

    Twelve Ways to Overcome Onesidedness

    In his lecture series Human and Cosmic Thought, Rudolf Steiner explained the importance of understandings from twelve different worldviews — from materialism to spiritualism, from idealism to realism — in order to attain a balanced view of the whole. In the introduction to the 1991 English translation, Nick Thomas wrote that: Rudolf Steiner shows that…

  • Reality, Truth and Revelation

    Reality, Truth and Revelation

    For whatever reasons, few realists have described themselves as such and most philosophical writing on realism has been against the beliefs of others. Whatever we believe is real, is something that we normally take for granted as true; it lies at the unspoken foundation of our worldview. This is why I believe it is important.…

  • [Old – from Ch1-2] Chapter 2-2: Ancient Greeks and Early Alchemists V0.4

    [Old – from Ch1-2] Chapter 2-2: Ancient Greeks and Early Alchemists V0.4

    Technological innovations may have been developed by this time, but their conception was not seen as we do today. They were not created or understood by means of abstract thought, but through imaginative (creative, but exact) thought pictures…

  • Ancient Greek Insights

    Ancient Greek Insights

    I am sad to say that I have chosen to completely rewrite my early drafts of prehistoric and Ancient Greek history almost in their entirety. They are to be replaced by two new and hopefully more relevant chapters. Their replacements concentrate on the possibly controversial Idea of Plato’s Philosopher…

  • [Old] Chapter 1-Part 1 – Prehistory: Version 0.3: The Beginnings of Chemistry and the End of Realism

    [Old] Chapter 1-Part 1 – Prehistory: Version 0.3: The Beginnings of Chemistry and the End of Realism

    Early draft of deprecated chapter. The mysteries to be explored in this book largely fall under the subject matter of chemistry. Though I was not particularly talented at school or university in the practical art of chemistry, I have always been fascinated by its apparent magical qualities. There is something deeply mysterious about it. I…

  • [Old] Chapter 1 part 2 (version-0.2)

    [Old] Chapter 1 part 2 (version-0.2)

    An early draft of deprecated chapter about alchemy, copied from Wikipedia to help me develop my own ideas…

  • [Old] Foreword: The Story So Far!

    [Old] Foreword: The Story So Far!

    The original book concept was big and ambitious. I tried to simplify it. But each of its parts increasingly appeared to form a single coherent whole. So I am now in the challenging process of bringing all of its parts together in such a way that each part illuminates all of the others, enabling their…

  • [Old] Greek & Medieval Ideas

    [Old] Greek & Medieval Ideas

    Ancient Greek physics – developing an understanding of knowledge – epistemology – and the natural world – physics – a world of beings – entities which exist – Plato and Aristotle expressed the same holistic ideas – from different perspectives. The essence of things – ousia – thinghood. Also the concepts of matter, atoms, and…