Miscellaneous
Contrary
to how things may seem, I have not fallen off the face of the planet, nor have
I forgotten about this attempt of a website.
I just don’t really have anything to post and it’s been a startling busy
summer (although not very productive).
So I’d like to say a little about what I’m up to and what will hopefully
be coming soon, because if I say I’m going to do something I might actually get
around to doing it…
Hopefully
in the near future I’ll post on my philosophical framework, but right now I’m
still in the process of constructing it.
I’m leaning towards an empiricist view or Kantian mixture of empiricism
and rationalism, but beyond that I’m not too sure of the fundamental nature of
the universe (besides, of course, what is in the Bible, which is all I REALLY
need to know). I’ve rejected a purely
rationalist view but I’m hesitant to abandon it completely, because the human
psychology at least seems to have innate desires, and I’m not sure how to
reconcile an empiricist framework with innate desires without resorting to some
type of innate ideas. Kant’s view may
have potential to
resolve this, but I really can’t understand him. Anyway, figuring out the basic nature of
reality has been taking up a lot of my time, but I’ve also been working on
organizing my political views into a self-consistent system, which hopefully
I’ll also be able to post in the near future.
However, a lot of my political views are closely related to my ethical
views, and hence that will probably have to wait until I’ve created a framework
for those. Of course, those views come
directly from the Bible, but in order to be fashioned into a political
framework they need to also have secular reasoning, and in short I’ve been
putting in a lot of work but I’m still nowhere near done completing a fully
secular rational support of either my ethics or politics. (Now I have rational religious reasoning to
support them, which I may eventually post, but that’s another topic.) As soon as I have time (or am bored enough)
I’m still planning on posting about consolidation regarding
So
in conclusion, there’s really no substance to this post beyond to say that in
the near future I’d like to post some sort of philosophical framework that I’m
fairly certain of (once I decide on it) and a framework for my political views.
I’d
also like to express my deepest sympathies to those affected by the tragedy in