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Why I Go for Values over Virtues

Why I Go for Values over Virtues

A fellow admirer of Peirce who has written extensively about his thought has questioned my distinction between values and virtues.
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Jesus Overhears Messiah Talk

Jesus Overhears Messiah Talk

Jesus was amazed by what he overheard near the small synagogue close to his home. Men talked all day. Often heated. Mostly low in tone. Not…
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Nomadic Response

First, nomadic to me suggests wandering but is hardly confined to physical travel. You can be a nomad without moving much at all.
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Logic is the Test of Good and Evil

Logic is the Test of Good and Evil

Logic is good, our proposition goes. It is good for many reasons including the one suggested by Peirce below. It is a means iof determining…
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Stephen C. Rose3 days ago

My NYT Response to a Knee Jerk Frank Bruni Column on Donald Trump.

One quality I share with Trump is that I care not what folk will think of me. Of course we both care but you know what I mean. We are…
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Stephen C. Rose3 days ago

Dylan Note — “Roll On John”

Fires burn bright like tigers
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Stephen C. Rose4 days ago
Jesus Plumbs Abba’s Mind

Jesus Plumbs Abba’s Mind

After Jesus had declared his intent to be aggressive in pressing for a great sea change toward goodness, he was seized by curiosity.
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Stephen C. Rose5 days ago
Jesus on the borderline

Jesus on the borderline

“The most difficult problem of all is uniting when evil lurks. And evil has a habit of lurking on earth.” So Abba interjected when Jesus…
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Stephen C. RoseApr 2
Our Humble Senses

Our Humble Senses

The evidence of our senses in themselves is not, “I look out my window and see the hand of God at work.”
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Stephen C. RoseApr 2
Death and History by Istvan Kiraly V. (2015, 180 pp.)

Death and History by Istvan Kiraly V. (2015, 180 pp.)

NEW WAYS TO UNDERSTAND OUR #HISTORY, #MORTALITY and the #TERRORISM.
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Király V. IstvánMar 19
Jesus Mulls It Over

Jesus Mulls It Over

This was big. It was simple. It was hard for Jesus to fathom. But he did not want to talk to Abba until he understood.
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Stephen C. RoseApr 1
Jesus Unites with Rachel

Jesus Unites with Rachel

Below is a draft of a future chapter in this series. The first six sections of this project are available only on Kindle. You can support…
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Stephen C. RoseMar 29
The Scales of Right and Wrong

The Scales of Right and Wrong

Peirce holds our hand in prose as he takes us (below) through three tests of a sense or sensation or perception. After passing the tests of…
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Stephen C. RoseMar 29
Everything Comes Newsletter Two

Everything Comes Newsletter Two

Personal: I’ve been playing doctor tag. Seems Medicare is inimical to my specialist MD. Ouch. So I have to spend time finding another and…
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Stephen C. RoseMar 29

Four Short Form Heretical Notions

No I don’t feel like writing at any length. So I will spill the contents of this morning’s mind with great speed.
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Stephen C. RoseMar 27
We are in the arena, not outside it.

We are in the arena, not outside it.

Reading the circumlocution below, there can be no doubt why pragmaticism, Peirce’s ultimate rescue of pragmatism from the maw of…
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Stephen C. RoseMar 27
Direct Knowledge is More or Less The Only Knowledge We Have

Direct Knowledge is More or Less The Only Knowledge We Have

The Peirce quotes below require no emendation and I have nothing to add. Possibly, I might argue the contention in the headline above.
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Stephen C. RoseMar 26

Dylan Note — Nobody ‘Cept You

No one can snare a single mind for real
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Stephen C. RoseMar 26
Are You Free?

Are You Free?

For some reason, I feel it’s my duty to make the following public service announcement and I’m going to ride on the coattails of an icon…
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S Lynn KnightMar 24
“The essence of truth lies in its resistance to being ignored.” —C. S. Peirce

“The essence of truth lies in its resistance to being ignored.” —C. S. Peirce

The quote in the headline and below exemplifies the straight-forwardness of the man whose mind was said to be the equal of that of Leibnitz…
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Stephen C. RoseMar 24
Jesus Asks about God

Jesus Asks about God

Below is a draft of a future chapter in this series. The first five sections of this project, in addition to the sixth above, are available…
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Stephen C. RoseMar 24
DEATH and HISTORY by Istvan Kiraly V.

DEATH and HISTORY by Istvan Kiraly V.

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Király V. IstvánMar 23
Compulsion circles us round

Compulsion circles us round

Whether we feel forced by this or that, we are. The sheer fixity of things makes it so. Forced by this and that.
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Stephen C. RoseMar 23

A Poem World Poetry Day

Hi Again.
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Stephen C. RoseMar 21

About the Tao of Mark

The mode in which this original gospel is written is suggested in the following:
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Stephen C. RoseMar 21
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