A Recently Obtained Book About the Political Writings Supports the Premise that William Ockham’s Mind Subjected Itself to Authority and Could Only Be Free If All Authority Somehow Disappeared. The most salient thing I noticed while reading this conclusion is that the mind under the thrall of authority always seeks external proofs as justification. The… Continue reading Ockham’s Epiphany Premise Supported
Month: June 2025
Erich Fromm Religion in Our Secular Society
The Psychic and Behavioral Nature of Orientation and Devotion link to Printable PDF Religion, Character and Society by Erich Fromm – To Have or To Be (followed by my conclusion TJL) This chapter deals with the thesis that social change interacts with a change in the social character; that “religious” impulses contribute the energy necessary… Continue reading Erich Fromm Religion in Our Secular Society
Limitation and the Present
In Limitation Philosophy the Non-Physical Is Coincident With the Physical, So the Abstract Is Never Far From the Concrete. Puritanism helped mould the social order, but it was itself increasingly moulded by it. R.H. Tawney The quote is from the 1937 Preface to Tawney’s Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, and I was struck by… Continue reading Limitation and the Present