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Category: Spiral Historiography
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Why do Politicians ignore contemporary philosophy? The clear answer is here…
Nihilism which is troubling and harmful is the cynicism. The philosophical nihilism actually calls for active revaluation to create new pathways for 18-34 year old people (a reference to a study), and, indeed, everyone who has the will and the capacity to re-thinking their situation. There are a few other philosophers who say some…
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The Open Question on High-Level Employment
Dr Neville Buch Abstract Fair employment is systematically subverted by the “credential currency” of modern technocracy, which prioritizes institutional conformity and mechanistic utility over genuine intellectual capacity. The question of who does not get fairly employed reveals two primary groups: the highly “overqualified” intellectual (the scholar) and the systematically marginalized (based on gender, ethnicity, or…
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Hate Speech and Hate Expression
Hate Speech and Hate Expression Dr Neville Buch Abstract This essay argues that effectively addressing hate speech and the expression of hatred requires a transition from technocratic solutions, such as bans and censorship, toward a sophisticated understanding of the Dynamic of Cognition (DoC). Drawing on the synthesis of C.G. Jung’s archetypes and John…
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Dewey and Jung on Social Psychology
Dr Neville Buch Abstract This essay explores the synthesis of C.G. Jung’s analytical psychology and John Dewey’s pragmatist social psychology within the framework of Dr. Neville Buch’s Dynamic of Cognition (DoC). It argues that Jung’s concept of archetypes—the “inherited possibilities of ideas”—provides the necessary primordial content for the “Prejudice” layer of the DoC, while Dewey’s…
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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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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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Why moralism does not work.
WHY MORALISM DOES NOT WORK Please Understand, for the sake of kindness. From Thomas Banchoff, Liberals and conservatives shy away from this core Catholic teaching, Cruelty is ravaging politics. What happened to mercy? The Washington Post. November 13, 2025 “Liberals and conservatives shy away from mercy…
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Endless Reporting and Tracking, and Machine Non-Thinking
We have all experience it: Endless Reporting and Tracking, and Machine Non-Thinking. Here is a number which is meaningless: 3.6 millions are on Centrelink payments. Phillips and Narayanan (2021) of the ANU puts it more meaningful: The Australian social security system spends around $120 billion dollars in cash transfers…
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Humanism: Understanding Virtues and Vices Together
Virtues and vices are often seen as opposing forces in moral philosophy. In Aristotle’s view, virtues are character traits that represent a balance or “mean” between two opposing vices. For example, courage is a virtue that exists between the vices of recklessness and cowardice. In contrast, vices are negative character traits that represent an excess…
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The Madness that is Institutional Thinking
Lynn Arnold was a long-serving minister and premier of South Australia from 1992-93. After Labor’s defeat in 1993, he moved to Spain to research for a PhD in linguistics, worked for World Vision, then ran Anglicare. Since Anglicare was essentially a lobbying body, Lynn thought it appropriate to resign from the ALP. …