Category: Jackson Barwis
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A Little Housekeeping on Jackson Barwis
I originally published an ebook of the collected works of Jackson Barwis three years ago under the title “On Three Legs We Stand.” At the time I prepared the initial volume,...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of July: “[T]he ideas of the Deity in the minds of vulgar worshipers in general are, and ever will be, false, erroneous, and idolatrous….”
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! Here are three parallel observations on the nature of religion: First believe that God is a...
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Following A 2000-Year Trail In Pursuit of “Anticipations”
Let’s see if we can follow a trail and connect some dots that may well exist between Epicurus and two writers from the eighteenth century, and in so doing see...
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In Explanation of “Anticipations”: An Interesting Analogy From Norman DeWitt, And A Suggestion From Seneca
I now tend to think that the best in-depth explanation and defense of “Anticipations,” under the name of “Innate Principles,” has been given to us by Jackson Barwis in his...
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“Do you, then, interrogated I, maintain the reality of innate principles? I do, answered he in a firm tone; and I hope, for the sake of sound morals and of truth, important objects with you, to convince you of that reality.”
Today’s post is a much-revised introduction to the Jackson Barwis Ebook, On Three Legs We Stand. Why spend time with Jackson Barwis? Because if Epicurus was right, and if the...