Hossein Jorjani First publication: 2026 – 07 – 08 One question repeatedly arose while reading Gurvitch’s critique of Plato and Plotinus: Can one consistently be both a dialectician and a believer in God? The question, however, becomes more illuminating when reformulated. The decisive issue is not whether one believes in God, but what kind ofContinue reading “Excursus 112 – On Closed and Open Dialectics”
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Excursus 024 – On the Anthropomorphic Mind and God
Hossein Jorjani First publication: 2026 – 06 – 30 Bacon’s discussion of the human tendency to impose imagined order upon nature, as presented in Aphorism I:45 of the Novum Organum (1620), has been interpreted by some later commentators as extending to the formation of anthropomorphic conceptions of God. This should not be understood as aContinue reading “Excursus 024 – On the Anthropomorphic Mind and God”