Dr Neville Buch

Professional Historian and History Consultancy Services Brisbane

Category: Intellectual History

  • “I rather be Right than Correct” : Needing to be Correct Not Right

    “I rather be Right than Correct” : Needing to be Correct Not Right

        “I rather be Right than Correct”. If you have intelligent ears to hear, intelligent eyes to see, and intelligent mouths to speak, the statement is perceived in the Age of Trumpism. Today, assertion is increasingly made without the intelligence. There is a confusion between the term “right” and the term “correct”.  “Right” means…

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  • THE THIRD PATHWAY

    Image: “The Third Pathway” I cannot upgrade to the commercial version of ClickCharts because I am financially broke. You are getting this professional, educational, lesson for free.         We live in a world of Power and Thought. Both are inescapable as concepts in the thinking. This article is about interpreting Nietzsche correctly…

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  • 2024-12-06 Further Discussions on Cognition Histories and Sociology

    2024-12-06 Further Discussions on Cognition Histories and Sociology

    https://www.facebook.com/events/601373408905942/         The Enormity of Facebook Technology Design Failure. But I finally beat it.     Cognition is the “mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses” It is simply the act or process of knowing.     Cognition histories is simply an account of…

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  • “School Thinkers” and Cognition History in our Schools

    “School Thinkers” and Cognition History in our Schools

    An examination of the Problem of ‘Schooling’ and Sociological-Person Models. “The literature traditionally goes to the political and legal landscapes but philosophically ignores the language.”       “[Buch] points out that such approaches are based on confusing ideological labels. For the field of studies-in-religion, the thinking has changed greatly as conceptual schemas and this…

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  • Cognition History and Sociology: A Series of Teaching Documents

    The first essay in the series on the emerging field of Cognition History (and Cognition Sociology). The essay begins with introducing key concepts of Micro and Macro scoping, and principal concepts of Thin and Thick. Other key concepts are introduced for their role of cognition. The essay includes a long selective list of the cognition…

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  • The Work of Dzavid Haveric for Queensland History

    The Work of Dzavid Haveric for Queensland History

    Dr Dzavid Haveric of Charles Sturt University is the leading historian in the story of Muslim-Australian experiences. He has also published about an Islamic leader, sometime ago, in Queensland history, who was a philosopher.   His work covers those experiences of soldiers during World War I (and more) who were of the Islamic faith or…

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  • History: not the Hollywood costume drama we have come to imagine

    History: not the Hollywood costume drama we have come to imagine

    The critic…“has realised that the chief way we relate to history today is as one big Hollywood costume drama”. Our country, and the world in the early 21st century, are being edged-on into stupidity by reactionary thinkers who are misguided into believing that they are God’s gift to “Man.”       History is how we…

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  • The Economic and Intelligent Cost of Not Employing or Contracting the Best and Leading Scholar: Locally, Regionally, and Nationally

    The Economic and Intelligent Cost of Not Employing or Contracting the Best and Leading Scholar: Locally, Regionally, and Nationally

    THE GLOBAL PROBLEM: MY LOCAL-REGIONAL-NATIONAL ACADEMIC AND POPULAR SCHOLARLY WORK Robert Cady Saler (2024). “Death to the World” and Apocalyptic Theological Aesthetics, T&T Clark (Bloomsbury), pp. 152, e-book US$ 122.41 discounted, hardcover US$ 153.00.   A MAJOR WAY TO A SOLUTION: A SHIFT IN SPIRAL HISTORIOGRAPHY David Fergusson (2024). Reformed Humanism: Essays on Christian Doctrine,…

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  • Spiral Historiography: 1. Widely-Believed Falsehood, 2. Accountability, 3. Falsehood Retreats, 4. Historical Forgetfulness

    “… Last Friday, Salem Media Group announced that it had removed the fabulist film 2,000 Mules from its platform and said it would no longer distribute either the movie or an accompanying book by the right-wing activist and Trump-pardoned felon Dinesh D’Souza. It also issued an apology to Mark Andrews, a Georgia man whom the film had falsely depicted…

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  • I and My Colleagues have been Saying the Same Thing For Decades as Leading Journalistic Statements: So, Why I NOT Employed or Contracted?

    I and My Colleagues have been Saying the Same Thing For Decades as Leading Journalistic Statements: So, Why I NOT Employed or Contracted?

    Dear friends,   Not understanding the A.I. risks.   Tyler Austin Harper (2024). The Big Ai Risk Not Enough People Are Seeing: Beware technology that makes us less human, The Atlantic, MAY 21, 2024, 6 AM ET.     GIFT ARTICLE   In 1977, Ivan Illich, an Austrian-born philosopher, vagabond priest, and ruthless critic of metastatic bureaucracies, declared that…

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