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Category: Intellectual History
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Ralph Cudworth. The True Intellectual System of the Universe (1678)
https://www.academia.edu/165049393/Ralph_Cudworth_The_True_Intellectual_System_of_the_Universe_1678_ Attached: Ralph Cudworth. The True Intellectual System of the Universe (1678) Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Abstract: The True Intellectual System of the Universe (1678) represents the definitive seventeenth-century defence of a self-conscious, universal Mind against the rising tide of mechanical and hylozoic atheism. By investigating the foundational…
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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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Identity Politics and the Ascent toward Comprehensive Empathy (Anthropologic Pedagogy)
Intellectual historians of Australia, the questions and answers section ties everything together in the attached essay of the Dynamic of Cognition and Spiral Historiography. Identity Politics and the Ascent toward Comprehensive Empathy (Anthropologic Pedagogy) This essay explores the proposition that “Identity Politics is Personal,” an argument developed by Dave Andrews which…
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Brisbane Olympics: The Thinking
Neville Buch (Dr) Abstract: The writer is involved in Brisbane’s Urban Coalition alliance of community organisations in urban sociology, discussing the planning for the Brisbane Olympics. This article explains why the thinking of the local Brisbane Olympic Committee has strayed so badly. (2023 words). Unsurprising is that populists, including political representatives, do…
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Charles Ringma: Comprehensively Christian Historiography and the Philosophy of Charles Ringma (HAPI Past Series)
Series Abstract: For the past few years, I have been researching and writing about the defuncted Department of History, University of Queensland, 1911-2000. It will take a few more years before a tome on the subject may be published. In the meantime, it has occurred to me to write up on the past academics of…
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Geoffrey Bolton. Comprehensive Historiography
Geoffrey Bolton: Comprehensive Historiography and the Philosophy of Geoffrey Bolton (HAPI Past Series) Series Abstract: For the past few years, I have been researching and writing about the defuncted Department of History, University of Queensland, 1911-2000. It will take a few more years before a tome on the subject may be published.…
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Implosion of the un-intelligent
From the Sydney Morning Herald, 4 March 2006 Jackie O exits show, Kyle Sandilands suspended amid on-air feud fallout KIIS FM has terminated Jackie “O” Henderson’s $100 million contract after she told executives she could not continue to work with Kyle Sandilands following an on-air feud with her co-star. The decision, announced on the…
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ART and Christian Churches
Abstract This essay examines the causal link between the decline of Australian churches and the systematic adoption of the American Revivalist Tradition (ART), as forewarned by Dr. Neville Buch in his 1995 doctoral research. It argues that the transition from a British-oriented “clerical Enlightenment” to a mechanized American model of faith has induced a state…
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Buch, Neville (2025). The Fortress of Hubris. Arrogance in Cultural Warfare, Unnderworld 2(11) 50-3
The Fortress of Hubris. Arrogance in Cultural Warfare Unnderworld 2(11) 50-3 Abstract This essay examines the arrogance inherent in contemporary cultural warfare, specifically through the lens of the frequent confusion between Christian Progressivism and Christian Realism. Drawing on source material from the Sea of Faith debates and Dr. Neville Buch’s Dynamic of Cognition (DoC) framework, the…