It comes out of the Doctrina Signorum, the understanding of signs laid out originally by Saint Augustine, which predominates across the Scholastic era...
If stasis precludes life? Is a This reminds me of a quote I've shared before: Sheer change and difference wouldn't really be "change." If one thing is...
Sort of like the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis for philosophy? It's an interesting though. However, it seems to me like Sapir-Whorf has fallen into ill reput...
Not to add more wrinkles, but in his Orthodox Psychotherapy, Hierotheos Vlachos argues that soul (psyche) is said in two ways in Scripture, as the lif...
If you liked Nietzsche I would give Dostoevsky a try. In a lot of ways they have very similar biographies and personalities. Nietzsche was a tremendou...
This is what I understand too, broadly speaking. Although there seems to have been a fair amount of diversity. However, the Pharisees, who play an out...
I find this assertion strange because the annals of Woke protest letters/debates are full of assertions of an expansive moral and epistemic relativism...
How is this not an argument against the very possibility of totalitarianism tout court, regardless of the ideology consumed by its practitioners? And ...
Well, it's complex. Saint Thomas cites Saint Augustine more than any other thinker (10,000+ times!) and Augustine suggests we can see the divine image...
Relativism, even in its extreme forms, does not need to imply that we prefer or will all possible eventualities equally. Indeed, extreme forms of rela...
Prima facie, it didn't have to lead that way. Many of the early adopters of Nietzsche who rescued him from obscurity leaned to the right. I actually t...
Sure, you could describe it lots of ways. You could also think of it as a system of (perverse) incentives. I'd place the main influence for the appear...
:up: Mark Fisher has a charming explanation of this in Capitalist Realism. But other theorists see this not as a property of late-capitalism, but of r...
It doesn't always. There are right-wing descendants of Nietzsche who also draw from Derrida, Deleuze, etc. as well as critical theory, although they t...
I'm certainly not committed to the idea that all philosophy is good, and that all philosophical "progress" is necessarily part of some sort of provide...
Absolutely. I wrote an article a while back that World War II has become the "founding mythos" of modern liberalism. In doing this, it has made (gener...
That's a very broad question. I think it comes down perhaps to evangelical zeal and praxis, although providence is another option! But Christianity di...
Well, al-Gharbi traces it back plausibly to early 19th century American politics, particularly in the context of abolitionism (which was also a quite ...
Relics are also relevant in the other direction. There can be nuance on relics, but on pretty much any sound theological view handing over gold so tha...
You pose an interesting question with a well thought out OP. A difficulty here is that the relevant ground to cover is incredibly broad, because there...
That unit is prior to multitude isn't really about the Holy Trinity, it's just relevant to speaking about the topic. Unlike Bob, Aquinas does not thin...
Right, numerical identity (dimensive quantity) is posterior to virtual quantity (qualitative intensity) and anything's being any thing at all. Unit (a...
As I pointed out earlier, this is a misunderstanding. There is only a contradiction if we assume that: A. Any distinctions made vis-á-vis God require/...
In its original development, maybe not, although key figures there tended towards a view of morality as mere sentiment (although sometimes divinely au...
I'm not sure if it will play out the same way. The noxious "White nationalist" faction notwithstanding, the fact that the GOP has embraced an identity...
Enactivism can be consistent with more traditional Aristotleianism, Thomism (even of the existential variety), or more "Neoplatonic," thought, althoug...
This is largely Fukuyama's answer in his recent "Liberalism and it's Discontents," which treats the same issue, but also the excesses of neoliberalism...
Or it can make old identities new targets of power. In the context of the Great Awokening, gender seems most relevant (although religion is important ...
What's the objection here aside from him being a "moralist?" It seems like you could describe his basic thesis just as well in the amoral language of ...
Unfortunately, I don't think it's going away. I think it is merely having a sort of recession on the left, due to political defeats. However, I think ...
If you're interested in the topic, I thought Musa al-Gharbi's We Have Never Been Woke was a good treatment. His main thrust was that the "Great Awoken...
Well, a wrinkle here is that weakness of will doesn't necessarily have anything to do with any sort of "moral" consideration, only practical judgement...
The key theological terms here are "theosis" (used more often in Eastern Christianity) and "diefication" (used more often in the Latin West). The idea...
Well, in the case of the law, I think it's important to consider that there is a difference between what God wills and what God permits. I don't think...
Well, that's Nietzsche's account. I think that, whatever his other merits, he is not a particularly accurate (or charitable) student of Plato, and esp...
I don't think Nietzsche is really in conflict with the Platonists on this particular point. They certainly allow that different appetites can be more ...
No, weakness of will is when one of the lower appetites, the concupiscible (related to pleasure/pain) or irascible (related to hope/fear), overrules t...
Precisely; this gets highlighted a lot in theology or in "the Bible as literature." Adam and Eve have the right goal, "becoming like onto God," but ha...
I'm not sure if I understand the question, but I'll try my best. Weakness of will is when we do something, despite having a strong desire not to do th...
Right, many versions of Christianity start from a quite different metaphysics, which is difficult to acclimatize to. I used to think the athiest prefe...
On some older views that have fallen out of fashion, what defines a state of "virtue" is that the virtuous person both tends to do what is right, and ...
That's a good point, although today, the working class of rural areas, (the closest analog to the peasantry in the electorate?) is also very right win...
The forum where you opened with the insult "someone must have had their brain cut out to be Christian?" If you cannot see why your post is pretty much...
Hume takes the categories and assumptions of his milieu as a starting point, so this seems totally fair in his case. He does provide a robust analysis...
Thank you for reminding me why this is such a dangerous technology in the hands of people who don't understand it (particularly GPT, with its default ...
It's not a psychological explanation. The rise of volanturism and nominalism and attacks on final causality were explicitly based on the idea that nat...
I can articulate it just fine, it's just based on a claim that is at best (and this is probably being too charitable), very misleading. Feel free to f...
You're equivocating here between your initial formulation, which sounds like straight penal substitution theology, and the idea of propitiation. Somet...
It takes the difference between real and conceptual distinctions for granted, or at least, tries to understand them properly in context. I don't see h...
This is not how I would put it, although it's better than your OP. While we can speak of God's "wrath" analogously, the Fathers are pretty much unanim...
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