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Foucaultian Histories: ‘Archaeology’ And ‘Genealogy’- Part One.

Foucault’s histories are broken down into two classes, ‘archaeology’, and ‘genealogy’, Gutting states he does not locate Foucaultian histories in any strict scientific sense of the term, as in they are...

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Differentiation: Maintaining The Self In Relation: Primer – Part 1.

Schnarch has some interesting ideas regarding marriage, intimacy and relationships that I intend to share here, to him society generally has distorted our view of sexuality, love, relationships,...

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Differentiation: Maintaining The Self In Relation – Part 2.

Now that we have looked at some of Schnarch’s ideas regarding sex, intimacy and relationships lets turn our focus toward his main thesis, that is: differentiation. But, what is it? The polishing...

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Differentiation: Maintaining The Self In Relation: Sex – Part 3.

Schnarch attempts in his work here to deny the old adage: “save the beauty in sex for marriage” (p. 71), he is attempting to expand awareness of the beauty of sex, by looking at our sexual potential,...

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Notes On Nicholas Rescher’s ‘A System Of Pragmatic Idealism, Vol. II’: Values...

Rescher’s ultimate goal in this work is to outline the significance of values and evaluation in his overall theme of philosophical idealism, but more than this he focuses on values because of their...

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Notes on Victor Reppert’s Book: ‘C.S. Lewis’ Dangerous Idea’- Pt1: Criticisms...

Reppert’s book focuses primarily on naturalism, using various rationalistic¹ arguments against such in an attempt to promote theistic conceptions of the mind, and the world (namely, that God, as...

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Notes on Mensch’s Book: ‘Knowing and Being- A Postmodern Reversal’ -Pt 1:...

This book. Boy, has it been a challenge for me. Partly because I’m very rusty, partly because it’s working in a field that I have not extensively studied. That said, let us try to muddle through it...

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Scholz On Feminism: Waves Or Themes?

There are often considered to be, depending on who you talk to of course, three waves of feminism (with a fourth potentially being entered into as we speak). Although Scholz doesn’t particularly like...

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Scholz On Feminism: Identity Politics.

Scholz states that identity politics started as a reaction to the shared experience, or sisterhood coming out of second wave feminism as well as an attempt to gain social, legal, intellectual, and...

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Scholz On Feminism: Patriarchy.

It is important to note at the outset that Scholz first notes patriarchy under the brand of feminism known as “Radical Feminism” which denotes a specific brand of Marxist feminism that often also...

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