Razie Mah: 70 books

The category-based nested form serves as one foundation for a postmodern scholastic anthropology. “Postmodern” because it begins with the insights of Charles Sanders Peirce and Ferdinand de Saussure. Scholastic because it takes Peirce’s categories and semiotic into questions that would be addressed...

Alexander Dugin’s Fourth Political Theory (2012) initiated a quest for a new conceptual structure to replace the three political theories of liberalism, communism and fascism. His title struck my eye because my mission is “to imagine the fourth age of understanding, the age of semiotics”. So...

Modernism belongs to the Age of Ideas. According to John Deely, two figures mark the turning point from the Latin Age to the Age of Ideas. They are Rene Descartes, pointing the way to the Age of Ideas, and John Poinsot, arriving at the triadic nature of the sign relation. The time is 1650 AD.These...

Primers 1-10 form a coherent set. Each develops concepts expressed in the foundatinal text: How to Define the Word “Religion”. Primer 11 differs. It addresses a key question about institutions Institutions compose the content-level of the society tier. The question concerns abstraction. It involves...

Why a series of primers?These primers provide in depth coverage of the nested form constructs in the book: How to Define the Word “Religion”.Primers 1 and 2 developed the category-based nested forms discussed in “the meaning underlying the word ‘religion’”.The next several primers address...

These comments examine a roughly hewn history of the Biblical stories of Adam and Eve. Greenblatt is both a modernist and postmodernist. He reduces complex phenomena. He expresses grievance for politically favored identities. For example, he reduces the existence of the early Genesis text to an innate...

This essay presents the natural hypothesis at the heart of the ground-breaking fiction: An Archaeology of the Fall. The question is: Why civilization? The answer relies on the idea of natural signs (proposed by Charles Peirce), the evolution of talk (not the same as the evolution of language), the...

Why a series of primers?These primers provide in depth coverage of the nested form constructs in the book: How to Define the Word “Religion”.Primers 1 and 2 developed the category-based nested forms discussed in “the meaning underlying the word ‘religion’”.The next several primers address...

Philosopher Roger Teichmann comments on an essay that appears in a recent compilation by philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe. Ancombe’s essay is entitled, “A Theory of Meaning?” It concerns Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein is a philosopher who writes in aphorisms. One goes like this: “A sound is an expression...

Why a series of primers?These primers provide in depth coverage of the nested form constructs in the book: How to Define the Word “Religion”.Primers 1 and 2 developed the category-based nested forms discussed in “the meaning underlying the word ‘religion’”.The next several primer address...

Sebastian Izquierdo published his treatise, The Lighthouse of the Sciences, in 1659. Disputation 17 concerns universals. Daniel Novotny is a Professor at the University of South Bohemia. He published Ens Rationis: From Suarez to Caramuel, which I commented on. His work succinctly summarizes the propositions...

In February 2018, Sasha Newell, Associate Professor in Anthropology at the Free University of Brussells, publishes an article that marks the changing of the guard. Newell aims to mesh affective theory and the new materialism with classic symbolic anthropology. The hybrid should overcome the weaknesses...

Modernism belongs to the Age of Ideas. According to John Deely, two figures mark the turning point from the Latin Age to the Age of Ideas. They are Rene Descartes, pointing the way to the Age of Ideas, and John Poinsot, arriving at the triadic nature of the sign relation. The time is 1650 AD.These...

Philosopher Jacques Maritain serves as a keystone in the recovery from the excesses of the Age of Ideas (as defined by John Deely, in his masterwork, Four Ages of Understanding). Maritain strives to recover Thomism during the 20th century. But, there are difficulties. The mechanical philosophers of...