Where there is no process, we cannot determine “the right balance” between “justice” and “givens,” and yet process can cause injustice and destabilize “givens.” Before further examining the possibility for a process that will keep existential anxiety from ever becoming to anyone so severe that authoritarianism becomes appealing, we should…

Inspired by Adarsh Ramakrishnan We have discussed throughout O.G. Rose how invention and creativity are essential to socioeconomic development. This case is made eloquently by Deirdre McCloskey, and basically the idea is that wealth is a result of “creation.” The world isn’t primarily made richer by gold, oil, or dollars…

A Philosophical Symphony Over a Philosophical System Something is missing. Between “being” and “nothing,” we need a third category: “lack.”¹ Many philosophers today discuss “becoming,” a corrective of “being,” and certainly where there is “lack” there can be “becoming” relative to that “lack” (which is to say we can “be…

On thinking about the death of communication thanks to “omnipresent communication” in terms of Nietzsche’s famous lament Nietzsche wasn’t excited about God dying: it meant the earth was unchained from the sun and we were going to fly off into the void — unless “man overcame man” and rose to…

The Transcendent Interplay of the Immanences of Memory and Imagination The paper “On Thinking and Perceiving” by O.G. Rose drew a distinction between “taking in” the nearby bookcase (“pure perception”) and thinking about the bookcase, which creates the distinction between “my idea of the bookcase” and “the bookcase.” In this…

Are there technologies we should hope aren’t invented? In Season 2 of the series Black Mirror, episode “White Christmas,” a technology is developed that enables people to copy a human consciousness onto a kind of “external hard drive,” and once copied, the “digital consciousness,” which exists independent of the person…

What process could combat delegitimization that wouldn’t itself be delegitimated as the delegitimization occurred? Can we hold on to hope by returning to Hunter and his “substantive democracy,” a world where people can compromise without abandoning their most deeply held beliefs?” This was also discussed in “The Conflict of Mind”…

The Economic, Epistemological, and Pathological Implications of “The Two Cultures” Snow was a writer and a scientist, but between those two worlds, which he saw as ‘comparable in intelligence, identical in race, etc.,’ he noticed ‘an ocean.’ He feared that ‘intellectual life of the whole of Western society [was] increasingly…

Reflections on O.G. Rose Conversation Episode #68 with Dr. James Simpkin I love discussions which move between a detailed and technical analysis of a particular subject to “big picture” philosophy, back to technical detail — on and on. Dialectical, this brings to mind the need for the “concretion” and how…