Dr Neville Buch

Professional Historian and History Consultancy Services Brisbane

Category: Essay for Social Change

  • As I Stand Mildly Crucified: Life of Jesus

    As I Stand Mildly Crucified: Life of Jesus

        As I Stand Mildly Crucified: Life of Jesus     Abstract This essay presents a philosophical plea constructed through the “historical-critical” lens of David Strauss’ Life of Jesus, advocating for the professional employment of Dr. Neville Buch. It argues that just as Strauss sought to strip away the “mythical” layers of the New…

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  • The Outsider’s Synthesis. Jack McKinney and the Cost of Ignorance

    The Outsider’s Synthesis. Jack McKinney and the Cost of Ignorance

        The Outsider’s Synthesis. Jack McKinney and the Cost of Ignorance A report on Jack McKinney and the Cost of Ignorance. Jack Philip McKinney’s philosophy was markedly different from that of his contemporaries, and his case offers profound lessons regarding why Australian society continues to ignore its independent thinkers. The following analysis details these…

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  • The City of Intellect: Urban Sociology and Suburban Action

    The City of Intellect: Urban Sociology and Suburban Action

      PDF File: The City of Intellect. Urban Sociology and Suburban Action     The City of Intellect: Urban Sociology and Suburban Action Abstract The Southern Brisbane Suburban Forum (SBSF) provides a revolutionary framework for Brisbane residents to engage with their environment, moving beyond the reductive logic of “rates, roads, and rubbish”. Drawing on the…

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  • From Offence to Understanding Essay Series: Essays 1-3

    From Offence to Understanding Essay Series: Essays 1-3

      Politeness and Offence: 1 of 3 in “From Offence to Understanding Essay Series” From Offence to Understanding Essay Series: There are moments of time when politeness is not a virtue because it is not just. Offence was necessarily committed to challenge unhealthy thinking. It was the virtue of candour. Fools deflect from this argument…

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  • Why the Disciplines and No Apologetics Part 4. Back to genuine faith and reason

    Why the Disciplines and No Apologetics Part 4. Back to genuine faith and reason

    For years I been hounding in ‘the public square’ about the failure of the apologetics industry which needs to be scrapped. And by apologetics industry I mean unreformed organisational humanism as much as I mean unreformed evangelicalism for the 21st century. It is time to act.     I have a message that must be…

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  • Detailed Intellectual History of Brisbane, Queensland; or “Brisbane’s Intellectual Ascent: A History of Humanistic Cognition”

    Detailed Intellectual History of Brisbane, Queensland; or “Brisbane’s Intellectual Ascent: A History of Humanistic Cognition”

        BRISBANE’S INTELLECTUAL ASCENT: A HISTORY OF HUMANISTIC COGNITION   https://www.academia.edu/162374166/Detailed_Intellectual_History_of_Brisbane_Queensland_or_Brisbanes_Intellectual_Ascent_A_History_of_Humanistic_Cognition_         Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642     Abstract The intellectual history of Brisbane is a narrative of transition from a colonial outpost characterized by “historical forgetfulness” to a burgeoning centre for inclusive humanism and digital humanism. For too long,…

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  • The Messaging of the Past Thinkers: In Relation to Dr Buch’s Work

    The Messaging of the Past Thinkers: In Relation to Dr Buch’s Work

      This essay synthesizes the “messages” of the seminal thinkers identified in the Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thinkers (prior to 1983) and integrates their insights with the subsequent philosophical work of Dr. Neville Buch and his 21st-century contemporaries.   https://www.academia.edu/150270892/The_Messaging_of_the_Past_Thinkers_In_Relation_to_Dr_Buchs_Work    Attached: The Messaging of the Past Thinkers. In Relation to Dr Buch’s Work  …

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  • How to bring social change for the better

    How to bring social change for the better

        PDF File: How to bring social change for the better     Abstract The intersection of Joshua Kyle T. Rovero’s “Metaphysics of Revolution” and the work of Dr. Neville Buch constitutes a 21st-century “new thinking” that redefines the mechanism of change in human society. Rovero redefines revolution not as a mere political event…

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  • Three “Women” Philosophers

    Three “Women” Philosophers

      Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) Abstract The intersection of the philosophies of Hannah Arendt and Dr. Neville Buch provides a powerful intellectual defence of human authorship and plurality in an era increasingly defined by the “technical abyss” and the erosion of truth. Arendt’s “how” of philosophy—rooted in passionate thinking, the vita activa, and a non-determinative theory…

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  • The Three Bernards

    The Three Bernards

      Bernard Lonergan and the Work of Dr Buch   Abstract The intersection of the philosophies of Bernard Lonergan and Dr. Neville Buch represents a robust humanistic ascent against the “technical abyss” and “limited thinking” of the 21st century. Lonergan provides the internal framework of self-appropriation—the personal discovery of the dynamic structure of inquiry, insight,…

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