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Friday, March 13, 2015

Any Idiot Can Pulverize a Statue, but It Takes a Real Genius to Create Ugly Art

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How do we attain knowledge of something, anyway? How is it even possible? It is possible because "the soul recognize[s] in material o...
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Thursday, March 12, 2015

You Must Be Dreaming!

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Yes, it takes all kinds to make a world. But what if the world only permits one kind -- as on college campuses, or in the NFM (non-Fox medi...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2015

The Blest Things in Life are Invisible

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So, I caught Nurse Ratched's press conference yesterday, and was struck by how much she really does remind me of Nurse Ratched. It'...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Chaos and Control, Destiny and Fate: You Can't Plan for the Surprise of Your Life

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It's amazing how subtle some of these dead old white men could be. Augustine, for example, writes that "'To use' is to put...
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Monday, March 09, 2015

Monsters and Crosses

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Aristotle once cracked that "one does not know the content of a desire unless one knows what ultimately satisfies it" (in Taylor )...
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Friday, March 06, 2015

The Economics of Interior and Exterior Poverty

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Here's one for the Glass Bead Game: what does idiom -- the unthought language of the self -- have to do with economics? This question ...
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Thursday, March 05, 2015

A Daze of Future Past

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This idea of idiom -- of certain eerily specific aesthetic objects "speaking" to us in an unfamiliarly familiar way -- seems to ha...
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Wednesday, March 04, 2015

Idiom, Resonance, and Destiny

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It seems that the poetic mode of knowledge is very much tied in with the slack required to exercise it. Through it "we gain our first ...
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Tuesday, March 03, 2015

Barry & Bibi, Cain & Abel, Shem & Shuan

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Not much time this morning if I'm going to lend an ear to the anti-Obama. Remember the old line, "peace will only come when Palest...
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Monday, March 02, 2015

God's Not Only Merely True, But Really Most Sincerely True

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A few more words about Poetic Knowledge and the Recovery of Education . Bottom line: the former is possible while the latter is not. You ...
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Friday, February 27, 2015

The Institutionalization of Man's Depravity

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Although Truth inheres in man -- in our spiritual substance -- it seems that this substance is susceptible to corruption. That would be the...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015

I Dream of Gagdad, Gagdad Dreams of Madonna

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The ? in the margin tells me that this must be a place where I depart from Schuon . Either that, or it signifies an idea which requires fur...
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

God is Proof that Man is Intelligent

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I don't like to read more than one chapter a day with Schuon. Not that he's difficult per se, just that it's too rich. Dense. ...
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

If Atheists are Correct, Only God Knows

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Seems like most people who encounter Schuon either accept his program entirely or else reject it out of hand. There's very little middl...
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Monday, February 23, 2015

A Science of Religions?

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I'm reading this new translation of Schuon's In the Face of the Absolute . I've read all of his books, but these new editions -...
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