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Cosmic Divinity and Religious Blasphemies

Cosmic Divinity and Religious Blasphemies

Why we should reinforce upbeat secular humanism and scientistic new atheism with unvarnished philosophy.

2022

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A Trove of My Philosophical Writings

An updated, categorized list of links to all my Medium articles

Oct 8, 2021

A Trove of My Philosophical Writings

Oct 8, 2021

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Philosophy Today

The Counterproductive Love of Wisdom

Why bother philosophizing?

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A thinker

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Thought Thinkers

The Internet Exposes Freedom’s Downside

The antisociality of social media, and the flight to authoritarian regimes

2d ago

The Internet Exposes Freedom’s Downside

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Grim Tidings

Is God the All-Powerful Quantum Vacuum?

A dialogue on the philosophical implications of a quantum mechanical view of nature

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Is God the All-Powerful Quantum Vacuum?

2d ago

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Thought Thinkers

Escaping Cosmic Dismay with Feel-Good Platitudes

What passes for philosophy on Instagram

6d ago

Escaping Cosmic Dismay with Feel-Good Platitudes

6d ago

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God’s Funeral

Trumpism and the Rise of Meta-Christianity

The medium is the message in Trump’s postmodern political cult

May 14

Trumpism and the Rise of Meta-Christianity

May 14

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Philosophy Today

The War on the Universe’s Strangeness

Cultural strategies for avoiding our inhuman, natural foundations

May 13

Human strangeness

May 13

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Grim Tidings

Is Justice a Lower-Class Conceit?

A dialogue on whether Trumpism shows we shouldn’t expect much social justice from history

May 12

Is Justice a Lower-Class Conceit?

May 12

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Thought Thinkers

Is Trumpism Ideological or Psychotic?

A superficial clash between explanations of Trump’s second presidential term

May 8

Is Trumpism Ideological or Psychotic?

May 8

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Philosophy Today

Civility as the Ghost in our Myriad Machines

A profound confusion about the conscious self spreads throughout society

May 7

Person in ghost costume

May 7

Benjamin Cain

Benjamin Cain

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Ph.D. in philosophy / Knowledge condemns. Art redeems. / https://benjamincain.substack.com / https://ko-fi.com/benjamincain / benjamincain8@gmailDOTcom

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