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Are you a Romantic? You are if…

Jeff Carreira December 9, 2013 Philosophy 1 Comment

In the late eighteenth century a literary and philosophical movement called Romanticism began. This movement was the emergence of a new consciousness in part spurred by the failings of the European Enlightenment. It lived in …

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Romanticism and the Human Soul

Jeff Carreira October 29, 2013 Philosophy Leave a Comment

Most of us know Samuel Taylor Coleridge as the English Romantic poet and author of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. We may not be aware that he was also an important English theologian who …

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Romanticism and Existential Philosophy

Jeff Carreira August 12, 2010 Philosophy 9 Comments

I have bee recently reading a book called “Irrational Man” by William Barrett. It was originally written in 1962 and it is generally recognized as the book that introduced the Existential philosophy of continental Europe …

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Spiritual Realism and Process Philosophy

Jeff Carreira June 17, 2010 Philosophy 14 Comments

As I have read through Emerson’s writing I see two aspects to his metaphysics. On the one hand he describes a spiritual Realism in which the collective human soul of humanity exists in a transcendent …

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From the Enlightenment to the Romantic Revolution

Jeff Carreira March 7, 2010 Popular Posts 10 Comments

For a time the rationality of the Enlightenment seemed to hail the final triumph of human reason. Soon the laws that operated behind the universe would all be known and humakind would be able to …

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A Brief Stop at the Human Intersection

Jeff Carreira September 22, 2009 Philosophy 28 Comments

If you think about the Universe as a vast unknown then you can think about human knowledge and understanding about the universe as the “human intersection with the universe.” Our knowledge about, and understanding of, …

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Test Drive a Worldview

Jeff Carreira September 16, 2009 Philosophy 13 Comments

To respond to Andy, I knew that I was getting myself into some trouble by oversimplifying and over-generalizing philosophy and breaking it down into metaphysics, epistemology and ethics. I was lumping things, like logic into epistemology …

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