Showing posts with label Enlightenment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Enlightenment. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Personal and Social Knowledge

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by Gary Berg-Cross The topic of personal versus social knowledge came up the other day in a group conversation that I was more or less ...
Monday, November 03, 2014

Some Observation on Truth from Robert G. Ingersoll in time for the 2014 election

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By Gary Berg-Cross As you can probably tell, the flood of insincerity abroad in our politics. It’s a stunning mix of strange, false...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Wrestling with Spiritual Concepts

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By Gary Berg-Cross Spirituality and religion are often conflated. In conversation there are terms like “soul” that gets used in ea...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Looking for another Johann Friedrich Struensee

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by Gary Berg-Cross As the House Republican argue for p rosecut e journalists for reporting on l eaks Freedom of the press is in t...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Condorcet and Dreams of Reason

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By Gary Berg-Cross   I’m a big fan of the Enlightenment, its products (Encyclopedia), values (the notion of progress), traditions and ...
Saturday, December 31, 2011

Great Thoughts at the Library of Congress

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by Gary Berg-Cross Washington DC is a gre at city to visit for scientific and humanities treasures. One repository of humanist and intel...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

King James and Citizen Grayling

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A few days ago I was surprised to hear an NPR story about the 400th anniversary of the completion of the King James Bible (KJB) in 1611. T...
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