Every society's institutions are inevitably broken down by perversion, oppression, betrayal, and malicious violence.
(a fragment of the physical map) position with respect to time -> velocity; velocity with respect to time ->acceleration; velocity with respect to mass -> momentum; acceleration with respect to mass -> force; momentum with respect to time -> force; force with respect to distance -> work; work in terms of capacity/capability -> energy
anfractuous: full of windings and intricate turnings
Propp's functions are invariances across stories; they are determined by comparison to many other stories. Thus what counts as functional vs nonfunctional will in fact depend on the comparison set.
The groove in a sword blade (fuller) is to reduce the weight of the blade (even a short fuller can reduce a considerable portion of the weight) while not significantly weakening it. Ricassos, when existing, are unsharpened parts of the blade base (the forte) allowing the blade itself to be gripped for particular actions.
the small thing that makes the world a little better in a way that brings people together (Frieren)
three major forms of ornament-making: coloring, carving, casting (there are other forms, but they tend to copy these three into different media, e.g., mosaic)
Part of the purpose of civil religion is to give civil value to what is prior to the civil society; it is, so to speak, the filial piety of civil society itself.
"...the general reason why Plato rejects nominalism, materialism, etc., is that these positions render impossible the explanation of the phenomena they are supposed to explain." Gerson
Sanctions must derive from persons.
Every human person is a work in progress.
At the end of life, reconciliation, eucharist, and unction each and together provide an opportunity for full repentance and disposition to eternity.
The self is hidden by its passions.
Between 235 and 284, there were 20 emperors recognized by the Senate, but in fact there were many more claimants than this. The period was effectively a free-for-all civil war.
The range of Christian response to ancient persectuion -- hiding, lapsed, certificated, and confessing -- are implicit in all Christian interactions with the world.
the simplicities that explain complexities
The human being has many consciousnesses, such as visual, tactile, memorative, integrated by being consciousnesses of one living being.
Scientimagic has always been more at the center of science fiction than science. What science fiction does is explore the evocativeness of scientific, parascientific, and peri-scientific vocabularies.
Recognition is not solidarity.
(1) express words (2) general tendency (3) analogy of doctrine (4) common consent
"*Authority* in all instances belongs to those by whom judgment is finally pronounced on the last appeal." R. I. Wilberforce
Movement through space is a temporal power; transition through time is a spatial power.
God in assuming human nature assumens also human civilizationality.
The menaing of a term is in its being alive.
kinds of private prayer: (1) basic religious expression (2) preparation for liturgy (3) participative liturgy
artificial virtues (in Hume's sense) and group virtues
'Existential import' would be more accurately called 'objectual import'.
faith as involving an openness to discovering
Often when people criticize things that are generally regarded as hierarchical, they criticize them for a lack of hierarchical acts.
"Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, old and new houses, and of houses with additions from various periods." Wittgenstein
We cannot help but expect analogies between beautiful things; beauty pushes us toward analogies.
grammar : angel :: rhetoric : archangel :: dialectic : principality
ordinary experience of extraordinary things
the release & detachment of the same sign to different domains
rituals as symbols vs rituals as frameworks of symbols
People will sometimes classify philosophical things as religion when they don't know what to do with them.
In the ordinary narrative art, world-building arises through connection of story to story, attempt to maintain a consistency through variation within a story, and drawing the reader/listener in through plausible patterns.
Living as we do in the infancy of the Church, we often struggle to see the larger providential picture, and have often misguidedly fixated on things that mattered little or ignored things that mattered much. We are not different from our ancestors in this.
A People without a Crown lack one of the historical ways of seeing and understanding themselves; they must compensate for this or collapse into confusion.
three modes of apostolic mission: reasoning, preaching, and virtue
Cf. Beda: "Theirs was the honour and authority of the apostles by their holy witness, the truth by their learning, the miracles by their merit."
Civilization is both natural and artificial, like human life.
When we look at the dreams of transhumanists, so much of what they imagine is just an externalization of what rational mind and virutous character already have more intimately, as if, failing to be geniuses, we dressed in clothes we stereotype as those of geniuses.
"The office of Pontifex Maximus, or chief priest, was to declare and interpret divine law, or, rather, to preside over sacred rites; he not only prescribed rules for public ceremony, but regulated the sarifices of private persons, not suffering them to vary from established custom, and giving information to everyone of what was requisite for purposes of worship or supplication." Plutarch (Life of Numa Pompilius)
"In apprehending the Creator through the creature, the philosopher has no cause to boast: he simply consents not to frustrate a principal purpose of his natural being, when the way has opened for him to fulfill it." Farrer
"To reject metaphysics is equivalent to saying that there are no serious questions for the human mind except those which fall under the special sciences."
"Our minds, in fact, are neither mirrors nor containers: their receptivity depends on what they can *do*, on their ability to busy themselves with their object, to express it in discoursing on it."
"To know God by revelation man needs both reason and wit; without reason he could not make sense of revelation, without wit he could not receive it."
"Poetry and divine inspiration have this in common, that both are projected in images which cannot be decoded, but must be allowed to signify what they signify of the reality beyond them."
"All parables are imperfect, or they would not be parables. Wisdom lies in seeing how far any comparison takes us, and at what point it must desert us."
"A good man helped by Grace may do human things divinely; Christ did divine things humanly."
"The two essential capacities of a reasonable creature, to love and to think, are in a manner both divine and infinite. Thought can aspire to think things as they are in themselves, not as they happen to affect the the thinker, and this is to model one's mind on the thought of God, the simple truth. So also we can care for things as God made them to be, not as they concern a personal interest, or a private passion."
"The sacraments are covenanted mercies; of uncovenanted mercies the number is infinite, and the scope unknown."
"The way to show God's mind in nature is to let them show us how they go."
Any argument from evil always presupposes an account of creation.
Medieval theology and philosophy were primarily concerned with explication of meanings.
Most theories of reason and rationality only consider them in their solid, crystalline form, but they have liquid and gaseous forms, less rigid and more diffuse and fluid, and other forms for which the physical analogy begins to fail.
Evolutionary theory shows us that it takes a considerable part of a universe to make a living thing.
A group mind would have to be held together by self-love, both love of the group mind for itself as group mind and love of the individual parts for themselves as part of the group.
If you had an oracle of the gods, to use it well you would have to know yourself.
the anarchic character of modern Catholicism (Brendan Hodge)
No one spirituality is adequate to the entire Body of Christ.
"Only the person who renounces self-importance, who no longer struggles to defend or assert himself, can be large enough for God's boundless action." Edith Stein
"God is truth, and whoever seeks truth is seekign God, whether he knows it or not."
