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The Functional and Spiritual Nature in Man, Part III
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The Functional and Spiritual Nature in Man, Part III

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Jan 28, 2022
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One of the failures of mechanistic rationalism is that it assumes that everything comes from the same place: that there’s only one level, the physical level, and that everything is physical. This invests all of what we are and understand in the functional alone. It presumes that impulse — the motive partner of function — is also functional. 

Yet impulse …

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