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Category: The Importance Of History In Our Own Lives?
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Perennial Thinking
Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Abstract This essay explores the contemporary intellectual crisis characterized by an “immense regression” into historical forgetfulness and unreflective conventionalism. It argues that even high-level scholarship frequently falls into the trap of “uninformed conventional thinking” by misinterpreting the nature of Perennial Thinking. By examining Karl Jaspers’ seminal…
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Professional History and Levels of Thinking
https://www.academia.edu/145773668/Professional_History_and_Levels_of_Thinking Professional History and Levels of Thinking Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Abstract This essay argues that professional historians must transcend the mere interpretation of primary records to engage with the deeper historiography of their subjects, a practice defined as “understanding history as philosophy in practice”. While records…
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Ideas and History
PDF File of Evidence: Ideas and History Dr Neville Buch Abstract The current climate of political resistance against independent scholarship at local, regional, and national levels is not a coordinated conspiracy but a systemic manifestation of wilful ignorance and technocratic reductionism. This resistance is rooted in a “techné” mindset that privileges measurable, immediate…
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The Architecture of Hope: From Sentiment to Action
Dr Neville Buch Abstract This essay examines the cognitive and existential distinctions between the active construction of hope and the limiting frameworks of fate, indecision, and clinical depression, as understood through the lens of Lebensphilosophie (Philosophy of Life) and the Dynamic of Cognition (DoC) methodology. Hope is identified not as a passive sentiment but…
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The Limits of Philosophy
Dr Neville Buch Abstract The following review examines the limits of philosophy through a multidisciplinary lens, drawing on the provided sources to demonstrate that philosophy’s primary boundary lies at the intersection of abstract theory and lived historical experience. The sources collectively suggest that philosophy fails when it attempts to provide a universal, Archimedean point…
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The Thesis of the Principle Basic Fallacy
Dr Neville Buch The Thesis of the Principle Basic Fallacy: Against the Natural/Artificial and Foreign/Native Binaries (Synthetic Goal/Procedure) https://www.academia.edu/145473077/The_Thesis_of_the_Principle_Basic_Fallacy The Thesis of the Principle Basic Fallacy Abstract The Thesis of the Principle Basic Fallacy asserts that the intellectual separation of ‘natural’ and ‘artificial’ elements in constructing systems of meaning is…
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The Shifting Tides: A Return of the Humanities in Public Imagination
Dr Neville Buch https://www.academia.edu/145459099/Shifting_Tides_The_Return_of_The_Humanities_in_Public_Imagination The Shifting Tides: A Return of the Humanities in Public Imagination Abstract The contemporary return of the humanities to the public imagination is a critical response to the technicisation of cognition and the resultant “immense regression,” a state characterized by “absolute non-knowledge” and the erosion of human agency.…
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Hanukkah
Dedication to the Memory of those Killed at Bondi Beach, 14 December 2025: Hanukkah, a Jewish festival, lasting eight days from the 25th day of Kislev (in December) and commemorating the rededication of the Temple in 165 BC by the Maccabees after its desecration by the Syrians. It is marked by the successive kindling of…
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Badge of Honour
Neville, This email is to formally advise you that your ongoing email behaviour is completely unacceptable and unprofessional. It must stop. In February 2024 the PHA warned you about this, and other unacceptable behaviours. Your incessant email campaigns reflect badly on yourself and the PHA cannot support or condone them.…
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Cognitive Failure in the Idea of Job Ready: cognitive failures being discussed, from my work on cognition histories and sociology.
PDF FILE: Cognitive Failure in the Idea of Job Ready https://www.academia.edu/145183063/Cognitive_Failure_in_the_Idea_of_Job_Ready 28 November 2025 Dear friends, I have dug deeper in this academia.edu article on the cognitive failures being discussed, from my work on cognition histories and sociology. I have widen the circle for economists, who may…