Tag Archives: John Ruskin

Agathism

May 30, 2024 – 10:52 am

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Pleasure and pain are a guide to something, but there is no sure guide to what is good; this is rather what should guide us.

Tall narrow trees beneath clear blue sky
Atatürk City Forest
Wednesday, March 22, 2024

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Articles on Collingwood

October 17, 2020 – 5:53 pm

This article gathers, and in some cases quotes and examines, popular articles about R. G. Collingwood (1889–1943).

  • By articles, I mean not blog posts like mine and others’, but essays by professionals in publications that have editors.

  • By popular, I mean written not for other professionals, but for the laity.

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By David Pierce | Posted in Collingwood, dialectic, Freedom, New Leviathan, Pacifism, Thoreau | Also tagged , , , | Comments (0)

NL III: “Body As Mind”

January 25, 2014 – 7:17 am

Index to this series

In Chapter I of The New Leviathan, we stipulated that natural science, the “science of body,” must be free to pursue its own aims. But we ourselves are doing science of mind, and:

1. 85. The sciences of mind, unless they preach error or confuse the issue by dishonest or involuntary obscurity, can tell us nothing but what each can verify for himself by reflecting on his own mind.

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