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Saturday, June 15, 2019

The Triumph of Love Over Contingency

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Recall our pithy formula from the previous post: the human vocation is to become in fact what we are in principle . Obviously, for man ...
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Sunday, June 09, 2019

The Irreducible We of The Cosmos

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The human vocation is to become in fact what we are in principle . Which is another way of expressing the old wise crack of the early Fath...
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Thursday, June 06, 2019

Immutable Life

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Schuon writes of a seeming paradox, that ultimate reality is "on the one hand Immutable, which determines us," but "on the ot...
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Tuesday, June 04, 2019

Adequate to Our Inadequacy

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Schuon often mentions the principle of sufficient reason , which simply means that things happen for a reason , and that this reason -- i.e....
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Saturday, June 01, 2019

The Argument from Stupidity

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Before continuing in our effort to develop an objective definition of spiritual normality -- and therefore pathology -- I want to address an...
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Wednesday, May 29, 2019

The Essence of Stupidity

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It has occurred to me more than once that someone needs to develop a diagnostic manual of spiritual pathology. After all, man is mind, body...
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Sunday, May 26, 2019

On the Possibility of Ontological Prisonhouse Conversions

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It is impossible to engage with the simpleton who imagines that because one is religious one is somehow "anti-science," because th...
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Thursday, May 23, 2019

Prisons of Knowledge and Adventures in Faith

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We never did finish our discussion of Purcell's From Big Bang to Big Mystery before veering into Hitler and the Germans , but the two a...
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Monday, May 20, 2019

Two Ways to Rot One's Mind

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Again, the theme of Hitler and the Germans is the idea that something had gone dreadfully wrong with German culture -- both intellectually ...
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Sunday, May 12, 2019

The Radical Stupidity of Stupid Radicals

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I've been reading Voegelin's Hitler and the Germans , which regards the idea of modernity from some angles I hadn't previously c...
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Friday, May 10, 2019

The Essence of Oneness and Oneness of Essence

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More blathering from the past. I'm no longer able to discern the quality. I can only toss it out there: When we say "one cosmos,...
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Wednesday, May 08, 2019

Contours of the Idiosphere

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Two more edited and strung together posts on Purcell's From Big Bang to Big Mystery : If we could ascribe a "shape" to man, i...
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