act and potency

  • On Angelic Beings

    A Philosophical Happy Hour on why we should care about angelic beings and seek understanding of their existence. Nearly every culture in human history has voiced belief in supernatural beings—forces beyond our reckoning that possess powers to shape and change the world.  Indeed, any honest inquiry into the world, the cosmos, shows us wonders beyond…

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  • On What Could Be

    A Philosophical Happy Hour on the distinction of potentiality and possibility in both being and knowing. When we speak about what “could be”, we often unthinkingly use the words “possible” and “potential” as though they were interchangeable.  Yet beneath this ordinary use lies a subtle but nevertheless important distinction: a distinction that reaches into the…

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  • Living through the Barbarism

    Perhaps this is an odd title—Living through the Barbarism—but it seems that ours is an age of unthinking strife. As a Lyceum Member asks: What is work and what is its purpose? This is something I have been thinking about a lot recently but also as a follow up to our conversation on Private Property…

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