Category: Findlay, J. N.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
My plan this morning was to hit the mat of meditation at 2:30, but it wasn't until 4:00 that I got there, having once again become entranced by the depth, probity, and genius of Wittgenstein as displayed in his Culture and Value (Vermischte Bemerkungen). His was a great if tormented soul and a powerful intellect. …
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Plato’s Great Inversion
A rerun unredacted from February, 2014. To the memory of John Niemeyer Findlay. ……………………………………… Our long-time friend Horace Jeffery Hodges kindly linked to and riffed upon my recent quotage of a bit of whimsicality from the second volume of J. N. Findlay's Gifford lectures. So here's another Findlay quotation for Jeff's delectation, this time from Plato…
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Plato’s Great Inversion
Our long-time friend Horace Jeffery Hodges kindly linked to and riffed upon my recent quotage of a bit of whimsicality from the second volume of J. N. Findlay's Gifford lectures. So here's another Findlay quotation for Jeff's delectation, this time from Plato and Platonism: An Introduction (Times Books, 1978): It is not here, we may…
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Towards a Phenomenology of Aunts
John Niemeyer Findlay, The Transcendence of the Cave (Allen & Unwin, 1967), p. 218: And it [a sound phenomenology or existentialism] will surely find room for a phenomenological characterization of the brotherly, the sisterly and the cousinly, and will perhaps find room for a special chapter on aunts, that interesting transitional category between maternity and…
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An Ontological Disproof of God
Nothing could count as God that did not have the property of aseity, or in plain Anglo-Saxon, from-itself-ness. The concept of God is the concept of something that by its very nature cannot be dependent on anything else for its nature or existence, and this holds whether or not anything in reality instantiates the concept.…
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Findlay Contra Wittgenstein
John Niemeyer Findlay, The Transcendence of the Cave (Allen & Unwin, 1967), p. 212: We must find a fulcrum outside of this world if we are to lift the heavy load of puzzles which weighs on us in this world, and no therapy can hope to heal us if we are unwilling to be…