Category Archives: 3 Forms of Being

McLuhan and Aristotle 5 (dualisms in 1944)

McLuhan and Aristotle 3 (the Stagirite as dialectician)

Contesting twofolds in Egypt and Greece

McLuhan’s contributions

Quantum considerations

Pre-tribal awareness

Wheeler and McLuhan

3 types of space

Escape from the cul-de-sac

Thoth: “the third ends the discord of the two”

Olympus, Pelion and Ossa in Hamlet

McLuhan and Plato 8½ – Gigantomachia in the Symposium

WSCM 6: Reading Wright

Connubium of Being 1

East & west, horizontal & vertical

Poetic vs Rhetorical Exegesis 2: a question of ontology

McLuhan & Peterson: competing fundamental myths 1

Point and circumference in 1939

McLuhan’s “flush-profile” review of Frye

McKeon, Gilson and Rorty

McKeon’s 1935 Trivium essay 2 (the trivial debate)

McKeon’s 1935 Trivium essay 1 (what is philosophy?)

Bridges of spiritual and mental states

Hayakawa and Alfred Korzybski

Bacon in McLuhan 6 (‘Medieval Grammar as the Basis of Bacon’s Novum Organum‘)

Bacon in McLuhan 1 (Nashe thesis)

The essential plurality of the forms of being

Verlinde and the aversion to philosophy

Quantum communications (the implications of essential plurality)

Gigantomachia, triangular duel, siamese triplets

McLuhan and Lodge (‘Philosophy and Education’)

Bradbrook’s School of Night and the dynamics of experience

Aesthetic Pattern (singular) in Keats’ Odes

McLuhan on “dichotomizing” in 1944

The Toronto school and Schiller

Lodge, Richards and Schiller’s Aesthetic Letters

“Ancient quarrel” and its synonyms (1940’s)

3 forms of Being in Havelock’s Crucifixion

On the “necessary conjoint” of Platonists and Aristotelians

Heisenberg on ‘an ancient quarrel’

Lindberg before and after Foundations

Rupert Lodge: Synthesis or Comparison?

The spectrum of forms

Percepts of existence

Bellum-Pax-Bellum

Dagwood and the ineradicable roots of our being

The Comparative Method of Rupert Lodge

McLuhan’s realism 6: dialectics and erudition not enough

McLuhan’s realism 5: Cambridge 1934-1935

McLuhan and Plato 15: Poe’s Maelstrom and the Phaedo

Richards – the trivium, the eddy and the 2 sides of the mirror

McLuhan’s Topic #3 – Richards and ontology

McLuhan and Plato 9 – on the plain of oblivion

The bias of communication