I know you're not *just* saying it, I meant that you're, uh, reporting it or something. It's in there (the GI), I just didn't read it myself. But at any rate, I suppose my point was off the mark even before it was made, as I just realized that time travel is totally contrary to the concept of causat...

I don't think TI is solipsistic. I wouldn't tend to think first of the Ritual of Desecration when applying the concept of radical evil to TCoTC. I didn't know Donaldson explicitly cites Plato and Jung as philosophical inspiration for his work (that's what you're saying, yeah?). The real world would ...

... Time, and not some magical Earthpower, is linked to causation... The only "energy" that could power the engine of natural causation would be the Arch of Time. ... The very idea that Time is an Arch, that it is something real outside the conscious self (although not physically real), i...

Radical evil is (in Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone ) identified as the consequence of free choice, so it's not clear that evil is, by the lights of TI, not a product of the will. I know in Die Metaphysik der Sitten a difference is spelled out between free will and free choice, but I'm no...

Ever since I got to know transcendental idealism pretty decently (as a metaphysical outlook in the Critique of Pure Reason and as an ethical theory by way of the doctrine of the categorical imperative) I've been struck by how it resonates with some of the metaphysics and ethics of the Land's univers...

I first learned about TCoTCtU from a book of illustrations of fantasy creatures from different authors' work that I had access to over ten years ago; the pictures were of Drool Rockworm and the Staff of Law; everything sounded pretty cool so at the threshold of my adolescence I turned to Donaldson's...