Posts Tagged “philosophy”
The Fragility of our Thinking
by i.burgess on October 26, 2012
So there is open war among men, in which each must take a part, and side either with dogmatism or scepticism… What then shall man do in this state? Shall he doubt everything? Shall he doubt whether he is awake, whether he is being pinched, or whether he is being burned? Shall he doubt whether [...]
Come Hither: Kierkegaard’s Gospel #2
by i.burgess on October 1, 2011
Come hither to me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, I will give you rest. Over the next few days I’m going to be exploring Søren Kierkegaard’s exposition of the above verse as he writes in the opening chapter of his book Training in Christianity. While perhaps I wouldn’t read scripture in the same [...]
One Breath From Eternity
by i.burgess on May 31, 2011
You have heard it said that you should live every day as if it’s your last, but I say unto you meet each moment as if it’s the only one you have. The past is an illusion, it exists only in our memories. Similarly the future is a myth, a product of our imaginations. This [...]
We only hope to live
by i.burgess on May 30, 2011
We do not rest satisfied with the present. We anticipate the future as too slow in coming, as if in order to hasten its course; or we recall the past, to stop its too rapid flight. So imprudent are we that we wander in the times which are not ours and do not think of [...]
Man is Made to Think, Deeply
by i.burgess on April 11, 2011
Man is obviously made to think. It is his whole dignity and whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. Now the order of thought is to begin with the self, and with it’s Author and its end. Now, of what does the world think? Never of this, but of dancing, [...]
