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Category: The Importance Of History In Our Own Lives?
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Hedging on Christian Nationalism: A Critique of Noetic Regression
Dr Neville Buch Abstract Nick Spencer’s article, “Christian Nationalism,” provides a valuable taxonomy of a burgeoning global phenomenon, yet from the perspective of Dr. Neville Buch’s Matrix of Sociology and the Dynamic of Cognition (DoC), it ultimately “hedges” by failing to diagnose the movement as a profound state of denoetization and Passive Nihilism. While…
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“They” know what they are doing is wrong: Attempts to remove the historical record
When a governance seeks to destroy or remove historical records, it commits an act of “temporal tyranny” that fundamentally undermines the possibility of social accountability and ethical self-understanding. Because “understanding history is philosophy in practice,” the removal of records is not merely a loss of data but a direct intervention into the mental architecture of…
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The Cognitive Architecture of Perspective and Comprehensive Understanding
https://www.academia.edu/165311107/The_Cognitive_Architecture_of_Perspective_and_Comprehensive_Understanding Attached: The Cognitive Architecture of Perspective and Comprehensive Understanding Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Abstract: This essay explores the cognitive and sociological limitations that prevent a comprehensive understanding of reality, even when an individual “sees” and interprets the world through a distinct perspective. Drawing on Dr.…
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How Antigone Complex Changes Everything for Higher Education Today
https://www.academia.edu/165296563/How_Antigone_Complex_Changes_Everything_for_Higher_Education_Today PDF File: How Antigone Complex Changes Everything for Higher Education Today Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Abstract: The current global revolution in thought is defined by a transition from the “Digital Revolution” of modernity to a “post-post-postmodern” era characterized by “symbolic misery” and “denoetization”—the mechanical liquidation of…
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The Buch Matrix: A Guide to Human Authorship
Being A Dummies Guide to A Matrix of Sociology https://www.academia.edu/165215495/The_Buch_Matrix_A_Guide_to_Human_Authorship_A_Matrix_of_Sociology_ Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Abstract “The Buch Matrix” is a special map designed by Dr. Neville Buch to help people understand how our world is put together. It looks at four main parts of life: the State…
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John Moses. Anglican Historiography: Conservative Historiography and the Philosophy of John Moses (HAPI Past Series)
This essay explores the historiography of John Anthony Moses, a preeminent Australian historian and staff member of the University of Queensland’s (UQ) school of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry (HAPI) from 1965 to 1994. Moses is characterized by his unique integration of secular Rankean methodology with an acute sensitivity to church history, religion, and theology as…
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An Intelligent Understanding
https://www.academia.edu/165011433/An_Intelligent_Understanding https://drnevillebuch.com/an-intelligent-understanding/ Attached: An Intelligent Understanding Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Abstract: This essay explores the persistent human tendencies toward prejudice, racism, and ethnocentrism, framing these “human flaws” through the lens of Dr. Neville Buch’s Spiral Historiography and the Dynamic of Cognition (DoC) framework. By comparing contemporary Western narratives of exclusion…
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Strategic Cousins: The Cognition of Australian and Canadian Political Unison
Dr Neville Buch Abstract This essay presents a Dynamic of Cognition (DoC) analysis of the unison in Canadian and Australian political thinking, as evidenced in the 2026 Hansard record of the Australian Parliament’s welcome to the Rt Hon. Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada. By applying the DoC framework—centring on the transition from unreflective habits…
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The Best Use of A.I. and Higher Education
“The workers who use AI best will deploy human judgment to analyse and evaluate information. To succeed in a workplace, not simply at a desk, they will be able to listen as well as to communicate. Their relentless curiosity will be grounded in intellectual humility, while their ethical behaviour will require moral courage.” …