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Author Archives: William Blumberg
Responsibilities to Future Generations
One consideration in sustainability is our responsibilities to future generations. This topic often falls under applied ethics and has close ties to environmental ethics. However, applied ethics has concerns with relationships between individual persons. One problem that arises with dealing … Continue reading
Love and Emotions and Robert C. Solomon
Solomon, Robert C. About Love: Reinventing Romance for Our Times. Lanham, Maryland: Madison Books, 2001. Robert C. Solomon was the Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Philosophy and Business at University of Texas at Austin whose untimely passing caused me great … Continue reading
WECSOR Conference 2011
My head is still full of ideas, comments, theories, and connections from the American Academy of Religion’s Western Region (WECSOR) meeting at Whittier College. It will be months for me to process all interesting conversations from this conference. However, here … Continue reading
Posted in Classes and Workshops
Tagged Ethics, Pagan, Philosophy, Pluralism, Religion
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Tsunami, Taking Actions, and Piety
I woke this morning and checked my twitter account (@williamblumberg) to find that a major earthquake occurred near Japan and that a tsunami had already impacted some coastal areas in Japan. My heart goes out to all those affected by … Continue reading
Ritual as Dissipation System
Ritual operates as a self-organizing dissipation system for ontological embodiment. Philosophers really know how to take all the fun out of something like ritual. Permit me to rephrase by saying that ritual permits the flow of energy, which is akin … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Piety, Ritual
Tagged Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics, Philosophy, piety, Ritual
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Aristotle and Confucius are Friends
Yu, Jiyuan. The Ethics of Confucius and Aristotle: Mirrors of Virtue. New York: Routledge, 2007. There are dangers with comparative philosophy. These include incommensurability, relativism, misinterpretations and heavy reliance on secondary sources (language), and Eurocentric standards. Jiyuan Yu faces all … Continue reading
Top 5 things I have learned about Blogging…so far
Being new to social media and starting a blog only a few months ago, I have gained some learning experience with this endeavor. From my very limited experience, I do have some things to offer, which I am sure in … Continue reading
Authenticity and Paganism
I attended Sabina Magliocco’s (Professor of Anthropology at CSU Northridge) “Folklore, Culture & Authenticity in modern Paganism” on Thursday for the Cherry Hill Seminary Winter Conference in San Jose. PantheaCon provided the room for our Winter Conference. Sabina raised may … Continue reading
What is Piety
What do I mean by piety (Єύσέβεia )? Well, I would be remiss if I did not begin this journey about piety without acknowledging Socrates’ famous question. Plato, in his Euthyphro, has Socrates ask Euthyphro about piety. There many definitions … Continue reading
Medieval History & Witchcraft
Bailey, Michael D. Battling Demons: Witchcraft, Heresy, and Reform in the Late Middle Ages. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. The focus of Battling Demons is Johannes Nider (d. 1438), a Dominican theologian. Bailey focuses on the … Continue reading
A Pagan Humanist 