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		<title>Zen and the art of hylomorphism&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://perennis.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/zen-and-the-art-of-hylomorphism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elliotbee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished watching Erleuchtung Garantiert (EG) (Enlightenment Guaranteed), a 1999 film by Dorris Dörrie, recently best known for her 2008 film, Die Kirschblüten &#8211; Hanami. I was struck by a quotation from a book on Zen featured in the film. Let me first give a brief synopsis of EG. It charts the spiritual growth [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=perennis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4649560&amp;post=1000&amp;subd=perennis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If…, then…?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elliotbee</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[metaphysics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Heaven is just an illusory way to assuage the fear of mortality, then is the assertion of nonexistence upon death a way to assuage the fear of eternal retribution? * * * If euthanasia is so good, why do we try talking people down from suicide? * * * If scientific theories do not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=perennis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4649560&amp;post=998&amp;subd=perennis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Careful with that razor!</title>
		<link>http://perennis.wordpress.com/2009/07/21/careful-with-that-razor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elliotbee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[metaphysics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[causation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is not an uncommon argument against teleology that the appearance of design and finalized function is but a cognitive illusion generated by our brains for survival value. The first thing that strikes me about this claim is how seriously it complicates the attendant claim that our cognitive capacities are merely and wholly evolved by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=perennis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4649560&amp;post=996&amp;subd=perennis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pressure…in a vacuum?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elliotbee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am greatly intrigued by the concept of natural selection (NS). In this post I would like to consider three aspects of the theory which I think place it in a proper metaphysical setting and, as a consequence, complicate the appearance of its scientific hegemony. My first claim concerns the logical vs. empirical status of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=perennis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4649560&amp;post=994&amp;subd=perennis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Natural selection doesn&#8217;t mean truth-selection…</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Biologists discover the evolutionary roots of religion!&#8221; &#8220;Biologists discover the evolutionary roots of food!&#8221; In the second case, we uncontroversially see that food meets a need integral to vital human nature. In the first case, we see a similar instance of integral satisfaction. If God is an illusion generated by natural selection, then so is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=perennis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4649560&amp;post=992&amp;subd=perennis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quick notes on mind, brain, will, action, etc.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elliotbee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[metaphysics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As John Broughton&#8217;s surveys show, physicalism and dual-aspect theory of mind are as naively intuitive (i.e., in the child psyche) as dualism. Cf. Rieber, Body and Mind, pp. 188ff. + + + One man, call him Johann, stands before another man, call him Gunther. Johann shouts repeatedly at Gunther&#8217;s legs, &#8220;Walk now! Go on, move! [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=perennis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4649560&amp;post=990&amp;subd=perennis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why the arguments for atheism are moral arguments, and why that matters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Liccione</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[apologetics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At ST Ia Q2 A3, where Aquinas offers his well-known &#8220;five ways&#8221; of proving God&#8217;s existence, he notes and replies to two objections. To paraphrase, the first is that &#8220;infinite goodness&#8221; is incompatible with the existence of &#8220;evil&#8221;; the second, that citing God is &#8220;superfluous&#8221; as an explanation for the world&#8217;s existence. It&#8217;s pretty evident [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=perennis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4649560&amp;post=969&amp;subd=perennis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Laws or wills?</title>
		<link>http://perennis.wordpress.com/2009/06/20/laws-or-wills/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elliotbee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[apologetics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[creation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following are excerpts from my latest post at FCA. Go there to see the unusually lengthy combox thread: Is there any law that dictates what the most basic laws of physics are? Are the laws of the universe self-ratifying, or are they in need of some grounding principle to account for their exact correlations? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=perennis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4649560&amp;post=966&amp;subd=perennis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the philosophy of the anthropology of religion…</title>
		<link>http://perennis.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/on-the-philosophy-of-the-anthropology-of-religion%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elliotbee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeing as things have been pretty slow here at PhilPer, and seeing as some readers still hope to hear an achey-breaky &#8220;But I&#8217;m not dead yet!&#8221; I decided to kick up some dust here… sort of… by linking to several posts at my own blog, FideCogitActio (which all this time has been unobtrusively linked in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=perennis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4649560&amp;post=963&amp;subd=perennis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Your mouth bone is connected to your stomach bone…</title>
		<link>http://perennis.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/your-mouth-bone-is-connected-to-your-stomach-bone%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elliotbee</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chesterton]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[logic]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sheen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://veniaminov.blogspot.com/2009/06/your-mouth-bone-is-connected-to-your.html Posted in apologetics, catechesis, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science Tagged: Chesterton, hylomorphism, intellect, logic, mind, Sheen, soul<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=perennis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4649560&amp;post=959&amp;subd=perennis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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