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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

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

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

Downloadable PDF Erich Fromm on Narcissism To understand narcissism as a heuristic one must see things through the limitation philosophy lens, where all human behavior is based in strategies that generate error(heuristics). This explains how all of our good acts done from good intentions often incur unforeseen cost, create misunderstandings with others, or go awry… Continue reading Narcissism A Heuristic that Generates Much Error

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I found this section of Escape From Freedom, by Erich Fromm very interesting. I’m sharing it without comment because it speaks so well for itself. Link to Chapter 1 -Freedom as a Psychological Problem Chapter One introduces Fromm’s concept of “Social Process” and this in essence describes this sentence from the longer quote below. He… Continue reading Erich Fromm: Some Thoughts on Martin Luther

Point to Important Philosophical Issues The early church controversies raise many questions without answering any of them in a satisfying way. In the end all orthodox dogma is based in appeal to authority which is to the philosophical mind evidence that Christian belief is not in any way based in reality. Dogmatic beliefs, like the… Continue reading Early Church Controversies

Limitation Philosophy sees all non-physical reality as emergent from physical reality and utilizes operational definitions to frame its theology, so it is objective in its general character. The Human Being as an Object We ourselves as individual persons are much more than objects, but sometimes there is educational value in setting aside the larger aspects… Continue reading God Considered as an Object

From the Seminal Book, LANGUAGE IN ACTION General Semantics, as written about by S.I. Hayakawa, Stuart Chase and some others played a formative role in the origination of Limitation Philosophy. The Parable, A STORY WITH A MORAL, by S.I. Hayakawa is a very rich demonstration of the power of language to shape reality. As a… Continue reading S.I. Hayakawa A Parable