JimII
@jamesbarton2.bsky.social
Amateur theologian and Great Books connoisseur; professional Social Justice Warrior; reluctant old guy.
Just finished reading Kant's discussion of the Transcendental Analytic. #booksky. It took a lot of work and I found a course on CoPR and that was nice. Importantly, in the last two days, I have had two nice conversations with the family triggered by the reading.
December 25, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Just finished reading Kant's discussion of the Transcendental Analytic. #booksky. It took a lot of work and I found a course on CoPR and that was nice. Importantly, in the last two days, I have had two nice conversations with the family triggered by the reading.
Kant would have done well to talk to some preschool teachers. Just sayin'
December 21, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Kant would have done well to talk to some preschool teachers. Just sayin'
It is awesome that Kant uses the intersection of two parallel lines as an "impossibility" that can only be known through synthetic apriori reasoning. When in fact parallel line can (and do) intersect. He didn't know. #booksky
December 21, 2025 at 1:18 AM
It is awesome that Kant uses the intersection of two parallel lines as an "impossibility" that can only be known through synthetic apriori reasoning. When in fact parallel line can (and do) intersect. He didn't know. #booksky
So, Kant says all experience is mediates through the human construct of time. That seems right and 35 years ago i really should have stayed awake in that class 'cuz it would've been pretty relevant to my honors thesis. Oh well.
December 14, 2025 at 6:40 AM
So, Kant says all experience is mediates through the human construct of time. That seems right and 35 years ago i really should have stayed awake in that class 'cuz it would've been pretty relevant to my honors thesis. Oh well.
Failure to give constant attention to development of the intellectual content of experiences and to obtain ever-increasing organization of facts and ideas may in the end merely strengthen the tendency towards a reactionary return to intellectual and moral authoritarianism. -- John Dewey #booksky
December 14, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Failure to give constant attention to development of the intellectual content of experiences and to obtain ever-increasing organization of facts and ideas may in the end merely strengthen the tendency towards a reactionary return to intellectual and moral authoritarianism. -- John Dewey #booksky
"I have therefore no knowledge of myself ss I am, but merely as I appear to myself." Critique of Pure Reason, pt 2, Section 21, Kant. Checks out. #booksky
December 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
"I have therefore no knowledge of myself ss I am, but merely as I appear to myself." Critique of Pure Reason, pt 2, Section 21, Kant. Checks out. #booksky
“What avail is it to win prescribed amounts of information … if in the process the individual loses his own soul: loses … if he loses desire to apply what he has learned and, above all, loses the ability to extract meaning.” Dewey 🔥trad ed #booksky
December 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
“What avail is it to win prescribed amounts of information … if in the process the individual loses his own soul: loses … if he loses desire to apply what he has learned and, above all, loses the ability to extract meaning.” Dewey 🔥trad ed #booksky
Space and Time as concepts preloaded in the human mind seems right to me. Kant's categories of understanding seem less obvious but he promises to provide a deduction of them. #booksky
December 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Space and Time as concepts preloaded in the human mind seems right to me. Kant's categories of understanding seem less obvious but he promises to provide a deduction of them. #booksky
"How shall the young become acquainted with the past in such a wa that the acquaintance is a potent agent in appreciation of the living present." John Dewey, Experience and Education. #booksky
December 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
"How shall the young become acquainted with the past in such a wa that the acquaintance is a potent agent in appreciation of the living present." John Dewey, Experience and Education. #booksky
Maybe even more important than the Disciples and the UCC being in conversation. ;-)
Pope Leo XIV and Patriarch Bartholomew sign document urging progress on Christian unity www.christiancentury.org/news/pope-le...
Pope Leo XIV and Patriarch Bartholomew sign document urging progress on Christian unity
Pope Leo XIV and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople met at the patriarchal seat in the ancient Phanar quarter on Saturday to sign a joint declaration affirming their commitment to…
www.christiancentury.org
December 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Maybe even more important than the Disciples and the UCC being in conversation. ;-)
Berkeley's insistance that reality os composed of ideas imprinted on the senses by God feels real real close the the simulation hypothesis. I assume many a philosophy undergrad has explored this in final papers #booksky
December 7, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Berkeley's insistance that reality os composed of ideas imprinted on the senses by God feels real real close the the simulation hypothesis. I assume many a philosophy undergrad has explored this in final papers #booksky
"I entreat [my reader] to make my words. The occasion of his own thinking and endeavor to attain the same train of thoughts in Reading that I had in writing them." George Berkeley Introduction to the Principles of Human Knowledge #booksky
December 7, 2025 at 12:12 AM
"I entreat [my reader] to make my words. The occasion of his own thinking and endeavor to attain the same train of thoughts in Reading that I had in writing them." George Berkeley Introduction to the Principles of Human Knowledge #booksky
"He must be very weak ... who shall reject a truth that is demonstrated, for no other reason but it is newly known & contrary to prjudices," + "We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see." Berekley's quotable. #booksky
December 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
"He must be very weak ... who shall reject a truth that is demonstrated, for no other reason but it is newly known & contrary to prjudices," + "We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see." Berekley's quotable. #booksky
Finishing Ethics II from Spinoza and ch 28 of Princ. of Psych. by James lead to the happy coincidence of getting their takes on the geom. "truth" re the interior angles of a triangle. #booksky
December 6, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Finishing Ethics II from Spinoza and ch 28 of Princ. of Psych. by James lead to the happy coincidence of getting their takes on the geom. "truth" re the interior angles of a triangle. #booksky
I am listening to selections of Darwin, William James, and next up is Dewey. I am reaading Plotinus, Spinoza, and next up Berkley. All sort of coming to a climax around reading Kant next week. Feels right. #booksky
December 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I am listening to selections of Darwin, William James, and next up is Dewey. I am reaading Plotinus, Spinoza, and next up Berkley. All sort of coming to a climax around reading Kant next week. Feels right. #booksky
"The 'experience-philosophy' has ... been the opponent of theological modes of thought. ... With scientific animus of anti-supernaturalism we ought to agree, but we ought to free ourselves from its verbal idols and bugbears." William James on not throwing the baby out with the bathwater. #booksky
December 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"The 'experience-philosophy' has ... been the opponent of theological modes of thought. ... With scientific animus of anti-supernaturalism we ought to agree, but we ought to free ourselves from its verbal idols and bugbears." William James on not throwing the baby out with the bathwater. #booksky
"A body once in motion continues to move until it is determined to rest by another body; and a body at rest remains at rest unless it is determined to move by another.” Not Newton, but Spinoza Lemma 3 of Prop 13 of Part 2 of his Ethics. coincidental overlap of meta-physics & real-physics? #booksky
December 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
"A body once in motion continues to move until it is determined to rest by another body; and a body at rest remains at rest unless it is determined to move by another.” Not Newton, but Spinoza Lemma 3 of Prop 13 of Part 2 of his Ethics. coincidental overlap of meta-physics & real-physics? #booksky
Note that description of the heliocentric universe [sic] and the circulation of blood by the heart were as controversial as evolution. But science cannot be denied when describing the extant world.
November 29, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Note that description of the heliocentric universe [sic] and the circulation of blood by the heart were as controversial as evolution. But science cannot be denied when describing the extant world.
"Still the die is cast, and my trust is in my love of truth, and the candour that inheres in cultivated minds." Harvey, Motion of the Heart, ch. 8. #booksky Bless his 17th century heart believing there are enough cultivated minds.
November 29, 2025 at 6:13 AM
"Still the die is cast, and my trust is in my love of truth, and the candour that inheres in cultivated minds." Harvey, Motion of the Heart, ch. 8. #booksky Bless his 17th century heart believing there are enough cultivated minds.
I agree but i doubt the family will
if you have a long car ride with your family today, may I suggest the Moby Dick audiobook to keep things light
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I agree but i doubt the family will
William Harvey figures out circulation without understanding gasses were dissolved in blood; Charles Darwin figures out natural selection without understanding genes. #booksky
November 27, 2025 at 7:54 PM
William Harvey figures out circulation without understanding gasses were dissolved in blood; Charles Darwin figures out natural selection without understanding genes. #booksky
William Harvey is writing in the early 1600s. Still a part of the wave of “let’s actually observe” what is happening rather than using the “and what else floats” reasoning. #booksky
November 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
William Harvey is writing in the early 1600s. Still a part of the wave of “let’s actually observe” what is happening rather than using the “and what else floats” reasoning. #booksky