Immanuel Kant’s Categorical Imperative is to act according to that maxim which you can simultaneously will to be a universal law. However, I think that there are no maxims regarding actions alone that may be coherently willed universally, because one can easily contrive a situation where any action is permissible to prevent a greater evil.…
I like to publish my most important ongoing works to this blog so that they may be read in the event of my unexpected death. The foregoing text is one example. In it, I discuss the crucial topics of abstraction and analogy, two mechanisms of mentation and communication so pervasive and critical that it can…
by Mark Tracy The physical notions of time and space—whether understood phenomenologically or theoretically—are ontologically posterior to the co-arising notions of demarcation and abstraction. By saying that one thing A is ontologically prior to another thing B, I mean that A is necessary for B to be intelligibly conceived at all. It is equivalent to…
The Trinitarian Mystery 