There is a goodness that moral goodness presupposes and on which it depends.
In all habitual faith, including that in human testimony, we trust something to be so in light of the goodness of that something, the goodness of the authority saying that it is so, and the goodness of the end in light of which we trust. In divine faith, these are all divine goodness: We trust God about God in light of God as our end.
truth : knowledge :: goodness : faith
esque concepts in figurate being
the common hydrological way of thinking about electrisity as figurate being
-- when something is seen specifically as a model, we are considering separately what in figurate being are considered together.
-- the figurate being is the thing itself considered as modeled by something else
-- cf. Dennett's intentional stance and design stance, as he sometimes uses them
-- how is figurate being related to real and rational being? This will require close analysis in terms of the strict definitions
People who come to a conclusion directly, and people who come to it through resistance, often have different kinds of insights into the conclusion, and both kinds of insight are valuable for inquiry.
Knowledge prepares for understanding and understanding prepares for wisdom.
the experience of nostalgia for paradise -- i.e., a sense of nostalgia for a goodness never in our lives had
To recognize ourselves as temporal, we clock ourselves by external changes.
Elections are divisions of a population in order to turn a chaos of voices into an order.
Given a political position, an unintelligent mind will try to generalize it indiscriminately.
Both progressive and conservative forms of liberalism require kinds of responsibility that liberalism itself cannot sustain and that must be borrowed at credit from other institutions, which liberalism itself also cannot sustain.
ligeantia naturalis (->subditus natus)
ligeantia acquisita (->subditus datus = denizen)
ligeantia localis
ligeantia legalis
allegiance to person vs to office
Note that Hume uses a consensus gentium argument against social contract theory (T 3.2.8), and indeed defends such an argument as legitimate for the entire field of mroality as respects virtue or obligation.
Teleportation would be a temporal power.
"...the arts are the best Time Machine we have." CS Lewis
In the Gospels we see Jesus through the Church; we never see Jesus except through the Church.
transdoxastic identity (sometimes called 'intentional identity', although this is a more general category)
Dasein is not something one has; having occurs within Dasein.
Any easily identifiable minority who are willing to argue their positions will tend to be labeled as obnoxious or insufferable, regardless of how they actually argue -- people like minority approaches they disagree with to be quiet and timid, not to insist that other approaches are definitely wrong, and (even worse) to keep arguing the point rather than being intimidated by stock responses. Everyone tends to be like this (people with minority approaches do the same to other minority approaches), and people are often very hypocritical about it, attacking people on this basis for not backing down in the face of their own obnoxiousness or insufferability. It likewise doesn't depend on the kind of conclusion or quality of argumentation. This seems to be due to a combiantion of (1) most people lacking endurance when it comes to arguing, and therefore being put off by people having endurance in it, and (2) most people being poorly prepared for argument on matters they normally take for granted, and therefore being stressed by having to scramble to argue for what they take to be at least relatively obvious; and (3) some people wanting to be deferred to rather than argued with at length; and (4) some people beginning with disdain or contempt for the minority approach to begin with, for reasons connected to its being a minority approach. Perhaps there's also a tendency to disparage things that are seen as wasting one's time or that might become a threat if allowed to grow.
Psalm 93 is traditionally associated with Friday.
(1) Headings in LXX and Vulgate assign it to "the day before the sabbath when the earth was inhabited".
(2) Mishnah says it was sung in Temple on Friday (m. Tamid 7:4; cf. b. Rosh Hashanah 31a).
Philosophers 'engineer concepts' in much the same way that painters 'work with light'.
Ascension // coronation
The artist must often work with hypothetical aesthetic judgments.
The border between the phenomenal and the merely noumenal is necessarily fuzzy.
Insights are completed in communication, and communication sparks insights.
Human wisdom does not protect one from misunderstanding, but it often does protect one from fruitless misunderstanding.
Sophomoric imitation radiates off of great literature like heat off a powerful engine.
Epics often use similes to prevent metaphors from obscuring the flow of narrative too much.
'Major deus intus agit rem, / maius numen inest.'
aesthetic self-preservation as part of the sociality of the body
Aesthetic testimony often clarifies our own experience or gives us a reason to take a second look.
In visual arts, as in philosophy and science, one simplifies in order to complexify.
"To call out woe upon an evil generation is well enough if you count yourself as one of the generation denounced. If, however, you think of it as an older generation or your own generations minus yourself then the exercise is not so healthy. The basic Christian doctrine of original sin is the necessary corrective to an overdose of ethics, as all good theologians know." R. B. McCallum
"To train our taste is to increase our capacity for pleasure; for it enables us to enter into such a variety of experience. This indeed is the special precious power of literature." David Cecil
"A true work of art is more than just shapely. It must stir our interest and stimulate our imagination, it must be individual and significant and delightful."
marriage as love united with order
In marriage spouses are symbols of each other.
"no van todos por un camino" Teresa of Avila
instrumental goods intrinsic qua good to human life
As Christ is the Image of God, it makes sense for us to use images in prayer as symbols of Christ; as Christ is Icon, we pray using icons of the saints, who are icons of Christ.
Augustinian sign: "Signum est quod se ipsum sensui et praeter se aliquid animo ostendit." (De dial.)
"Signum...est praeter speciem quam ingerit sensibus, aliud aliquid ex se faciens in cogitationem venire." (De doctr. chr.)
martyrdom // victory titles
To the overtender, virtuous compassion seems cold, or even cruel, and on that basis overtenderness can do grave damage, soemtimes even worse than cruelty. But even so, as a vice it is less bad, because more corrigible, than cruelty.
Some of what Aquinas identifies as integral parts of prudence seemt o be rather potential parts with a ministerial or suburbican role to prudence precisely as form of virtues.
significant-or-significate as nonexclusive transcendental disjunction
high utility: capacity to contribute to and to be incorporated into love of God
Almost all of the external problems of the Church are the result of an ongoing crisis of morale. This crisis has no signle root; it arises from a large number of separate assaults simultaneously, all of which converge toward morale-breaking. This is because the assaults, while separate, are ultimately coordianted. But the thing of note is how durable and resilient the Church has been in the face of this campaign.
The greater our virtues, the more ceaselessly they are expressed.
Virtues never expressed are imperfect virtues.
Fictionalisms almost universally underestimate the extent to which our fictions use real models.
The US Constitution very clearly does not present itself as a social compact but as an ordinance of the People of the United States.
the cosmos as a corporation under its Lord
Truth is not a genus, and is predicated of many things in many ways.
As everything resembles everything in some way, the future necessarily resembles the past.
To use change to measure change, we must think of it as completable and complete.
Rituals look back toward an initiating reason and forward toward a completion,a nd are partly structured by the lreation between the reason that initiates and the result that completes.
It makes no sense to ask whether induction is reliable because 'reliability' is an intrinsically inductive term; we define it using induction, we apply it using induction.
A correct theory of evidence will give you some notion of when you need to gather more evidence. This requires a classification of evidence into different kinds, because this is the primary way we determine whether more evidence is needed.
Given the power of the human intellect combined with the human imagination, stories of epic, cosmic, or mythic scope are unavoidable, as the kinds of tale commensurate with the human mind at its most full and expansive.
Loyalty makes all things epic.
A people as a (a) civil body (b) militia (c) market
a see as (a) a habitation (epaulis) (b) a superintendance (episkopen) (c) a place of service (topon tes diakonias) (d) a deputation, by succession, from the apostles
Catholic theology as contrapuntal, with transpositions, inversions, and harmonies on the essential Christological theme.
All human imagination has a mythology.
The People of God are both subjects and citizens.
We can read anything as a living thing, a mind, or an artifact, and these kinds of figurate being play a considerable role in our thought.
'Ora et labora' seems to be a summary of monasticism due to Dom Maur Walter from the 1880s.
