Category: In Drafts

Excerpts from current writing projects

Newman, Grammar of Assent, Draft Preface

There are many famous prefaces and introductions to the great and the good books of human tradition. Some are masterpieces in their own right, able to be studied with profit apart from the main work. One thinks of the prefatory materials to Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason; of Hegel’s introduction in The Phenomenology of Spirit; … Continue reading Newman, Grammar of Assent, Draft Preface →

From Physics VII.1 to Free Energy

The argument which follows is a recapitulation of a tradition of arguments found in Aristotle’s Physics (VII.1 and book VIII), as well as Aquinas’s “First Way” or proof from motion. Here is the argument in nuce, in its Aristotelian form. 1. Every mobile in motion is put in motion by another mover.2. Every mover (moving … Continue reading From Physics VII.1 to Free Energy →