by Mrs. B and The Cat | Oct 26, 2006 | Book Reviews
from my blog The philosophy of the nineteenth-century sensualists and positivists–particularly Comte, Hobbes, and Mill–assaulted God and science with the same club. Thus, in deconstructing the premises of this philosophical strain, Robert L. Dabney upheld...
by Mrs. B and The Cat | Oct 12, 2006 | Book Reviews
From my blog Once more, quotations are taken from Robert L. Dabney: The Sensualistic Philosophy, Naphtali Press, 2003. Robert L. Dabney’s philosophical observations of science are not stale; on the contrary, his observations are still crisp and refreshingly...
by Mrs. B and The Cat | Oct 12, 2006 | Book Reviews
From my blog Ayn Rand (1905-1982) was the great white hope of atheists determined to commandeer rationality. Her philosophy, “Objectivism,” was unique in its separation from the sensualists and its rejection of relativism. She did, nevertheless, hold...
by Mrs. B and The Cat | Oct 12, 2006 | Devotion
From my blog I am unsure why the idea of beauty embarrasses me, as though my thoughts are too defective to confess. Often it seems to me that my beauty receptors process input in blunt chunks. Objects–dwellings, clothing, the stuff of life–engage me with...
by Mrs. B and The Cat | Oct 12, 2006 | Uncategorized
From my blog Thou art good, and doest good…Ps 119:68 Colors converge toward copper here, passing red, not quite gold. Our chickens are deep golden-buff and scarlet-combed. Crimson-leaved blueberries and cayenne-orange mountain ash berries, saturated in...
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