Tag: realism

  • Paper: Counseling and The Two Routes

    An exploration into the reality of psychology from the perspective of mental health.

  • The Veritable Counsel

    We are generally afraid of talking, let alone thinking, about truth. I think this is due to the terrible things that humans beings do under the name of truth. Truth is associated with narrow-mindedness and intellectual myopia, as well as authoritarianism and religion. Well, I seek to disrupt those automatic associations, to help with an…

  • The Irony of Blogging with a Sense of Substance

    The irony is that blogging, by its very nature, is a motion of modern subjective materialism. People who are interested in true substance are not often reading blogs. In true Zizekian form, The blogosphere is a place where imaginary transcendence is verified to an absolute epistemological horizon. The question is: might we speak of this…

  • …and further commentary.

    Last year, I published a review of Sbriglia and Žižek’s Subject Lessons anthology, a review that can be found HERE. Sbriglia’s response has just been… Russell Sbriglia responds — Thanks Doctor Zamalek. Here is my small comment. Note: I have not read the book but I am buying it presently.  My comment is strictly…

  • Object Orientation, Tool Being, and Kierkegaard

    https://anchor.fm/s/50bf1544/podcast/rss https://anchor.fm/lance86/embed/episodes/The-Object-of-Called-the-Subject-Object-Orientation–Tool-Being-and-Kierkegaard-eutue1 The Object of the Subject

  • Postmodern Academics and …

    I can’t count the number of times I’ve defended Postmodernism (PoMo) from attack, so I am publishing this, so I can link to it. Perhaps I am not … Descriptive Postmodernism —- Exclellent points! I agree. and I too have been known to appear to overgeneralize postmodernism. Mostly, though, So far is out right rejection,…

  • Toward a Unified Philosophy of Counseling: Object Orientation

    In case you missed it. https://epublications.regis.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1027&context=cftsr Counseling and Family Therapy Scholarship Review Volume 3 Issue 1 Article 4 An Essay Concerning the Possibility of a Unifified Theory of Counseling Lance Kair Regis University, Department of Counseling, Division of Counseling and Family Therapy, Rueckert- Hartman College of Health Professions, lkair@regis.edu Follow this and additional works at:…

  • Objects and Encyclopedias

    My second article in the Encyclopedia just posted, though it’s behind a payment firewall, HERE. The previously commissioned article, published last … Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature It is interesting to me how philosophers neatly and discreetly avoid the basis of their arguments, to rely upon a paradigm that is already been established to thereby…

  • To the things themselves

    I am finally diving into Levi Bryant’s “Democracy of Objects”, and I gotta say, I do not know why I hadn’t looked At this sooner. http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/the-democracy-of-objects/ – This is not a big post; I was only reminded of my position: It is due to the current correlational episteme — not in spite of — that…

  • Realism and Material. All The President’s Men | HuffPost

    All The President’s Men | HuffPost — Read on m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5f832f7ec5b62f97bac42a7c —– An obsession with returning to the past. A reification of the past which blurs and distorts contact with the present. Sound familiar? I had a recent discussion about what might be dangerous of ideas. My point was that what I call a conventional approach…