July 2017 – PHILOSOPHICAL EGGS

137. Ingmar Bergman’s Metaphysical Reduction, Part 2: Winter Light

In May 1963, the Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) retrospectively described his films Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, and The Silence as a trilogy with a theme: “The theme of these three films is a ‘reduction’ – in… Read more ›

July 27, 2017

Dwight Goodyear

Aesthetics, Love, Metaphysics, Morality, The Soul, Truth

death, God is love and love is God, God's silence, Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman's metaphysical reduction, suicide, the problem of evil, The Silence, Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light

136. Ingmar Bergman’s Metaphysical Reduction, Part 1: Through a Glass Darkly

In May 1963, the Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) retrospectively described his films Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, and The Silence as a trilogy with a theme: “The theme of these three films is a ‘reduction’ – in… Read more ›

July 25, 2017 2 Comments

Dwight Goodyear

Aesthetics, Love, Metaphysics, Morality, The Soul, Truth

Bergman's metaphysical reduction, death, evil, God is love and love is God, goodness, Ingmar Bergman, love, The Silence, Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light

135. Heraclitus on Barking Humans

“Dogs bark at whomsoever they do not recognize” (translated by T. M. Robinson) This aphorism from Heraclitus (fl. c. 500 B.C.E.) suggests many humans are like dogs insofar as they “bark” at that which they think is different. They bark… Read more ›

July 11, 2017

Dwight Goodyear

Morality, The Soul

Dogs bark at whomsoever they do not recognize, gag rule, Heraclitus, knee jerk reactions

134. Hobbes vs. Socrates

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) opens his masterpiece Leviathan (1651) with some startling claims that reduce life to a series of motions and mechanisms: “Nature (the art whereby God hath made and governs the world) is by the art of man, as… Read more ›

July 7, 2017 2 Comments

Dwight Goodyear

Metaphysics, The Soul

AI, determinism, Leviathan, materialism, Plsto's Phaedo, Socrates, Socrates on Anaxagoras, Thomas Hobbes

133. A Crucial Philosophical Move in the Declaration of Independence

July 4, 2017 The framers of the Declaration of Independence knew they couldn’t justify a rebellion against the King of England given the Divine Right of Kings theory of government. According to this theory, Kings rule by divine right which… Read more ›

July 5, 2017

Dwight Goodyear

Morality, Political Theory

Carl L. Becker, Declaration of Independence, John Locke

132. An Argument for Substance Dualism

I have been thinking a lot about what philosophical positions might be implied by the fact that we present and evaluate arguments. Consider this argument or set of premises from which a conclusion is derived: Premise 1: All humans are… Read more ›

July 1, 2017

Dwight Goodyear

Metaphysics, The Soul, Truth

conceptualism, Edward Feser, intentionality, modest dualism, Paul M. Gould and Richard M. Davis, propositions, Quentin Smith, Substance dualism, the soul, Tyler Burge

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137. Ingmar Bergman’s Metaphysical Reduction, Part 2: Winter Light

136. Ingmar Bergman’s Metaphysical Reduction, Part 1: Through a Glass Darkly

135. Heraclitus on Barking Humans

134. Hobbes vs. Socrates

133. A Crucial Philosophical Move in the Declaration of Independence

132. An Argument for Substance Dualism