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Defining a Broad-Humanist Outlook: A Summary of Pew Research Center Report, What Makes Life Meaningful? (18 November 2021) From an Australian Perspective
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the broad-humanist outlook which exists across multiple worldviews of actual thinking persons, by way of a summary of the Pew Research Center’s report, entitled “What Makes Life Meaningful? Views From 17 Advanced Economies.” The report is produced by Laura Silver, Patrick van Kessel, Christine Huang, Laura Clancy…
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Uncooked Lamb: Over-clever humorous Propaganda
Any serious historian or a sociologist in the broad Australian Studies areas must be puzzled at the messaging of the recent Australian Lamb promotional video, and the, alas, popular response on social media. We have been here before, so many times. Clever? or humorous propaganda, à la Morrison’s Where the Bloody Hell Are You? as…
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Stan Grant’s Article on Tutu, Nietzsche, and the End of History
Stan Grant writes: “Our ‘historical fever’, Nietzsche said, ‘may bring about the decay of a people’. If history becomes sovereign, he wrote, it ‘would constitute a kind of final closing out of the accounts of life for mankind’. Isn’t this what we see in our world now?” and “We cannot just ‘move on’. We live…
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POWERS, ENTITIES, AND assimilation…
POWERS, ENTITIES, AND assimilation… Commercial and Military entities believe that that they are the only real power, the only true conflict. They are nothing without entities of Spirit, which are regularly co-opted to an illegitimate cause. What are we talking about here? By Spirit, the reference is passions, symbolic meaning, ethos, and the power of…
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Synopsis for Book Project. Horizon Worldviews: The Makings of A Broad Society In Queensland 1911-2001 (a Philosophic History)
This Project, ‘A.03 Book – Horizon Worldviews (Broad Society)’, explains the theory of the psyche-historiographical history, employing the empirical data of Queensland history 1911-2001 to develop the model as understood in a regional-local environment. There are several sociological and philosophy-of-mind models (currently eight). The primary model illustrated above is of the “Mind’s Eye” of…
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The Philosophy Café, Introduction to Philosophy of Social History: Untangling Culture/History wars, Or Finding Peace from the Culture War
Finding Peace from the Culture War Image: ID 189508406 © Skypixel | Dreamstime.com [Editor Note: A concise and better expressed, academic, version of the first section of this blogged discussion essay has been submitted for publication] At the outset, it must be said there is no contempt from good people for anyone on both sides…
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Thinking Historiographically
View Larger Image The average person thinks about history in terms of a sense of place. These are categories with markers – events listed in a chronology, names listed in a Who’s Who, or environmental features, including human constructs, in a list of locations. We usually categorize such markers on three levels, globally, regionally, and…