#idealism

Source Hay algo que me resulta profundamente incómodo de Say Nothing, de Patrick Radden Keefe, y no tiene demasiado que ver con Irlanda del Norte. Tiene que ver con una idea bastante más universal y,

Source Northern Ireland in the 1970s, during The Troubles, is where Say Nothing builds its story, and that context is essential to understand why this miniseries hit me the way it did. It is based on real

Source Cinderella is the name of the fairy tale every little girl grows up with. Let's be honest, Disney's influence on our collective imagination is undeniable. That would be perfectly fine if it remained

Yesterday I cam across a friend after almost four years. The thing is we both live in different cities, and he is a cousin of my friend. So through this friend, we both became good friends. And the reason?

Brief context. To fully understand what I mean in the title of this post, we first need to understand the origins of our most basic behavior. Do we choose to be good, or do we simply force ourselves to

En ocasiones me considero una persona demasiado perfeccionista a nivel general, y aunque a veces eso puede ser visto como algo positivo, la más de las veces creo que a las personas que somos así nos hace

A small clarity arrived the day I stopped naming the losses as tragedies and began treating them like furniture I no longer needed in the room. I am not speaking of sudden violence or headline grief, but

When we get trapped in a world of "Hopium" we run the risk of living in a state of "Copium!"

Sometimes I stop and reflect on the way that the crypto of 2025 has little to do with the crypto of 2014 when I started.

Perhaps life became so heavy on us when we stopped setting our dreams free. With every step we took deeper into the field of maturity, we denied ourselves the right, freedom, and desire to dream and to

I use US dollars. That makes sense because I live in the USA. When I walk into a store, a loaf of bread, can of cat food or a bottle of milk costs something in dollars. I don’t invest in dollars. I might

About 100 years ago (that's a lie, I'm not THAT old!), one of the takeaway lessons from college psychology classes was that there were certain ways in which I was not "typical." Most significantly

Wow it actually happened.

During the holidays, people often experience nostalgic feelings and look back to the past... but to WHEN, and for WHAT?

Ended up wasting a good bit of my day going down rabbit holes of sociology, urban planning and politics...

Introducing critical realism as an alternative to both modern and postmodern epistemologies.

Concluding the second chapter of Hiebert's book with a critique of both instrumentalism and idealism.

A discussion on how both instrumentalism and idealism influenced Christianity.

A discussion on how both instrumentalism and idealism influenced postmodernity.

An introductory article about Paul G. Hiebert's transition from positivism to critical realism.