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Thursday, May 31, 2018

Appearance and Reality, Mother and Father

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The marriage of appearance and reality is always present in the exercise of human intelligence, irrespective of the discipline. Not only is...
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Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Why a World?

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The universe is important if it is appearance, and insignificant if it is reality. --Dávila This seems important, which is to say, fundame...
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Friday, May 25, 2018

Something Stupid This Way Comes

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In the previous post we explained why it is that evil is simultaneously necessary and forbidden, rooted in the ontological distance between ...
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Wednesday, May 23, 2018

God Within Us, In Us, & Beyond Us

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Continuing with the metaphysical basis of our "fallen" condition, Schuon describes in The Question of Theodicies how ambiguities ...
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Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Exact Sciences vs. a Science of the Inexact

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Men are divided into two camps: those who believe in original sin and those who are idiots. --Dávila Chesterton remarked that "The on...
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Friday, May 18, 2018

Fridays with the Answer Man

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Let's begin with some aphorisms that go to this idea of Christianity disclosing the universal metaphysic, i.e., What's Really Going ...
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Thursday, May 17, 2018

The Nature of Transnatural Things

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I don't know if this goes without saying, but if Christianity discloses a universal metaphysic, it can only be on an esoteric (inward) n...
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Monday, May 14, 2018

Does Christianity Disclose a Universal Metaphysic?

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Which is to say, the universal metaphysic, being that there can be only one. I suppose most Christians will affirm that Christianity is tru...
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Friday, May 11, 2018

My Point Being?

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I've been dealing with a cold since Tuesday, hence the temporary suspension of logorrhea. A cold affects all systems, including the deli...
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Monday, May 07, 2018

Who Sees the Most Wins

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Let's play a game: "Let us suppose," writes Tallis , that "we accept biologism in full." Which is only right and pro...
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Friday, May 04, 2018

Crystallizations of Light & Coagulations of Darkness

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I'm guessing Tallis, despite his atheist credentials, would endorse the following: Scraping the painting, we do not find the meaning o...
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Wednesday, May 02, 2018

Mystery and Presence, Truth and Person

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Continuing with the theme of yesterday's post, I want to begin by highlighting some additional passages indicative of Tallis ' highl...
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Tuesday, May 01, 2018

Can Raccoons and Humans Mate?

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Vomit alert: the Times ran an editorial yesterday called Happy Birthday, Karl Marx. You Were Right! Bearing in mind the adage that Defeati...
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Monday, April 30, 2018

Creative and Destructive Tension

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Not much time, so let's get busy.... Well, I finished Aping Mankind over the weekend. The letdown was anticipated, because I knew in ...
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Friday, April 27, 2018

The Monstrous Implications of Scientism

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In the previous post we touched on the complementarity of subject/object, which mutually coarise. Tallis has some novel ideas about this, ...
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