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...
by Mrs. B and The Cat | Oct 12, 2006 | Book Reviews
From my blog Mid-nineteenth-century evolution theory was a fission bomb forever sundering two ways of understanding life: Either we are related through Adam and unrelated to cantaloupe; or, we are related through protoplasm to both. Dabney’s chapter,...
by Mrs. B and The Cat | Oct 4, 2006 | Devotion
This is from my blog, Board Housewife & The Cat I am still reading Dabney to the Cat. He takes it in through his senses. James and son John Stuart Mill would posit that I, if I formulate any ideas about their work, am experiencing “copies of single...
by Mrs. B and The Cat | Oct 4, 2006 | Devotion
from my blog Board Housewife & The Cat “The Pontiff of Humanity” Advisory: Scary content. The Cat enjoys scaring his friend Zack. He has urged me, therefore, to write about Positivism’s arch scion, Auguste Comte, about whom we were just...
by Mrs. B and The Cat | Sep 28, 2006 | Devotion
This is from my blog, Board Housewife & The Cat “And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.” Ge 1:31 “And Jehovah God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.” Ge 2:16 God...
by Mrs. B and The Cat | Sep 27, 2006 | Book Reviews
I posted this to my blog, Board Housewife & The Cat this morning. Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. Pr 3:5 As I begin to read about the history of ideas, two things happen: First, the more I am called to repent my...
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