Concentric Politics: A Political Theory Informed by Metaphysics How can the integrity and self determination of people's along racial, national and cultural lines be reconciled with an increasingly globalizing and internationalized world without compromising either?The coherence of any ideology is derived from the degree to which that ideology is based on reality principles. This is... Continue Reading →
In Concerning Fate, Plotinus targets both Stoic, Materialist and Astrological conceptions of causality. His argument against materialism is sound, that being the impossibility of the arrangement of atoms to form order in themselves, independent of an ordering agent, and the impossibility of such arrangements producing character in themselves over simply expressing that character. That being... Continue Reading →
One faulty implication of Plotinus' here is that he maintains a principle distinction and truly duality between soul and body, rather than a monic dynamic. He holds that matter is merely fashioned by, and presumably possessed by soul, and is therefore maintained as a composite of matter and form until the soul departs (being the unifying principle between form and matter, a glue) and the matter disintegrates.
Plotinus believes beauty is recognition of soul expressed in the body, or form expressed within matter, given things can be recognized as more or less beautiful, he maintains soul can express itself in matter to greater or lesser degrees — he believes this is possible because he maintains form and the stuff of matter to couple as a composite, ugliness he explains, is something of a failure of the stuff of matter to cohere to the form.
A short interpretation of the Fall of Adam and Eve following their eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil, this interpretation is made with the consideration that the story is a metaphysical parable relaying the principles of reality and function of said principles in a kind of human drama.
INTRODUCTION In contemporary physics, inertia refers to the tendency to remain unchanged, or resistance to change. It is the nature whereby something's condition will remain as it is until acted upon by an outside force. Inertia functions as an impulse towards the unchanged condition, whatsoever that condition might be - we can label whatever that... Continue Reading →
On the weight of good and evil as principles fundamental to reality and their classical conventions in reality.
This is merely my take on universal principles as designated in the Kybalion, you could regard this article, or rather these seven articles, as an expounded commentary on the metaphysics behind these principles, and my own interpretation of said principles.
On the Nature of Nature
Breaking Nous 