tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post5510232573180568815..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Seven Principles, Three Streams, One LoveGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-24246635129899258372015-12-30T11:11:15.016-08:002015-12-30T11:11:15.016-08:00Edward Feser discusses 'counterpoints' to ...Edward Feser discusses 'counterpoints' to the cardinal virtues in open-mindedness, empathy, tolerance, and fairness. http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2012/11/cardinal-virtues-and-counterfeit-virtues.htmlAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16652102016905951809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-40403601463382647312015-12-30T10:29:26.216-08:002015-12-30T10:29:26.216-08:00"Consider: prudence involves making decisions..."Consider: prudence involves making decisions and rendering actions based upon reality revealing itself to us. Ever since Kant, revealing itself is precisely what reality cannot do; thus the provenance of "perception is reality," which represents the precise inversion of prudence.<br /><br />Yes, I am being slightly unfair to Kant, who would have been horrified at what people ended up doing with his ideas. Nevertheless, once you make that fatal choice -- of beginning with the subject instead of objects -- there is no stopping the eventual reductio ad absurdum of the tenured. As Pieper says, "Man's life is authentic only when he does not allow his vision of reality to be clouded by the yes or no of his own desire.""<br /><br />Other than noting that's not unfair to Kant at all, nothing to add, just wanted to see it again. Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-91396566604006351842015-12-30T10:26:54.610-08:002015-12-30T10:26:54.610-08:00Social Justice also involves the violence of the m...<i>Social Justice also involves the violence of the mob -- as in Ferguson or Baltimore -- to undermine the Is in the name of some mythic Wish. </i><br /><br />I saw a horrific example of this in a news item yesterday: a group of moms and their teenage children (who apparently believed that black lives matter a <i>lot</i> more than anyone else's) assaulted and killed a homeless man at a gas station. Apparently, the son of one of these women claimed the man had hit him earlier in the day, thus justifying the assault. The boy lied, but no matter. Social justice was served. juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-10979735698033571632015-12-30T09:53:49.530-08:002015-12-30T09:53:49.530-08:00Yes, that's a classic, as are The Vision of th...Yes, that's a classic, as are The Vision of the Anointed and The Quest for Cosmic Justice.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-73769413632813605992015-12-30T09:43:36.962-08:002015-12-30T09:43:36.962-08:00"Note, for example, how most all of the troub..."Note, for example, how most all of the troubles caused by our first postmodern president are due to his imprudent devotion to the I Wish of ideology"<br /><br />Over the holidays I've been enjoying the Thomas Sowell interviews on youtube. Man are they (he) wonderful. "I Wish" there were more. Whatacountry. What a national treasure is Sowell.<br /><br />Anyway, to the quote above, sounds like his book "Conflict of Visions" is another good one. It's about the important difference between constrained and unconstrained visions. Here's an excerpt from a Hover Institute interview. Was done during Obama's first campaign. Go to around 5 mins in for an example of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyG1zmdh1pA" rel="nofollow">"unconstrained vision".</a>Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.com