Nick Gier

by Nick Gier published in Moscow-Pullman Daily News (9/3/22) I’m battling the NIC “deep state” on an almost daily basis.  We are registering victories and will register more wins. — Todd Banducci Todd Banducci, county Republican leader and former chair…

by Nick Gier The pure conservative is fighting against the progress of the universe. —Alfred North Whitehead             The Buddha (the “Awakened One”) was woke. Jesus was woke. The Greek and Roman philosophers were woke. Medieval Islamic philosophers were woke.…

The Partition of America (2025) and India (1947): Magaland: Marjorie Taylor Green’s Nightmare Comes True by Nick Gier Succession would destroy the only democracy in existence, and prove for all time that a government of the people could not survive.…

 By Nick Gier I’ve recently run across a conservative columnist who really annoys me. His name is Dennis Prager, and he constantly harangues against the “left,” irrationally defined as the press, universities, social media, Democrats, and science. For Prager biblical…

by Nick Gier The sage dwells in the midst of non-action (wuwei) and practices wordless teaching. —The Daodejing 2:3             I couldn’t have asked for a better teacher than Bill Parks for negotiating the rapids of a wild river. He…

Buddhism and Japanese Nationalism: A Sad Chronicle of Complicity Nicholas F. Gier, Professor Emeritus, University of Idaho Chapter Seven of The Origins of Religious Violence: An Asian Perspective Lexington Books, 2014 This chapter discusses Japanese nationalism and Buddhist involvement in…

Published in the Idaho State Journal, November 4, 2022 by Nick Gier A little bit of inflation is always good in our business. —Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen False: Biden and Democrats are responsible for violent crime. For decades Republicans have…

Nicholas F. Gier, Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, University of Idaho. Email: ngier006∂gmail.com “Were I to be again reduced to the chains of slavery, next to that enslavement, I should regard being the slave of a religious master the greatest…

This is a programmatic essay for a comprehensive comparative analysis of phenomenology and process philosophy.1 The central concern of this project is the relationship between the major doctrines of these two philosophies: intentionality and prehension. In his “analytic phenomenology” Stephen A.…

The brief Galilean vision of humility flickered throughout the ages, uncertainly . . . But the deeper idolatry, of fashioning God in the image of the Egyptian, Persian, and Roman imperial rulers, was retained. The Church gave unto God the…