mburns's Journal: Assertions II

Jesus really was not the first pope, nor was he the first Protestant pastor. It's odd how such a radical and relatively secular reformer can be recast as a religious figure.

The way I can communicate as an analytical philosopher is with aphorisms and short declarative arguments.

The falsifiability movement, religion, romanticism, modernism, post modernism and academic conservatism are all actually reactionary resistances to the analysis necessary for future progress. Liberal psychoanalysis by contrast is a fruitful way out.

Use Strunk and White? Not me; let's not put artificial restrictions on the possible expressiveness of the English language. We could still push the language to its limits like Shakespeare.

Spinoza put it that ideas seem incomprehensible unless they are understood, and that they can not be understood without a provisional adoption. Analytical concepts on the path to science seem trivial, also, until they interconnect. Myths have always seemed more compelling.

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Michael J. Burns

Comments on Assertions II

[anti-auctor]

Spinoza said that no man can abdicate his universal human rights, even should he consent to do so. I was watching "The Fixer" last night with Anthony Bates and was so very struck by this. My wife had comments on this this morning: that a mouse knows it has a predator, but that man must create its predators.

Michael J. Burns wrote:
'Jesus really was not the first pope, nor was he the first Protestant pastor. It's odd how such a radical and relatively secular reformer can be recast as a religious figure.'

I must