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Tag Archives: ontic

Language and Speech: What’s the Difference?

May 19, 2012

Understanding the difference between language and speech is pivotal to grokking not only the thesis of Leslie Dewart’s masterwork, but ourselves and our true situation in the world also.

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What to Transcend

May 16, 2012

Rather than looking outside our world for transcendence, let us look within.

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Absent-mindedness, Love, and Violence

May 14, 2012

Ontic consciousness distorts healthy human drives and instincts in all kinds of crazy ways, but particularly disturbing is its capacity …

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  • Synopsis of "E&C" A synopsis of the book, Evolution and Consciousness: The Role of Speech in the Origin and Development of Human Nature (University of Toronto Press, 1989), written by the author, Leslie Dewart, in 1991.
  • Conspectus of "E&C" A conspectus written by Leslie Dewart circa 1990 which summarizes his book, Evolution and Consciousness, from the point of view of the treatment of religion.
  • Audio Summaries of "E&C" The Synopsis and the Conspectus, read aloud, in MP3 format.
  • Full text of "E&C"

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"Consciousness is, thus, like a musical talent that weaves harmonies by skilfully playing, with the fingers of speech, an instrument that by itself is mute: reality as it is in itself."

Leslie Dewart, E&C, p. 154

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