The practical and theoretical sciences interpenetrate, each a means to the ends of the other.
Treating humanity as an end in itself requires treating human beings as united by a moral world.
The natural human being is already a human being who is being morally formed.
Sympathy is morally effective mostly as a bound rather than as the substance.
Human reason is naturally rhapsodic and only becomes systematic with much effort; and, given a system, it becomes rhapsodic again.
To say that the past is necessary is just to say that, for the present and future, they cannot be understood without the past; present and future cannot have an exemption or exception with respect to the past; the past is, so to speak, with the present and future, without exception.
Free will is an expression of a particular kind of intellectual goodness.
The success of science at providing unifying explanations for differing domains is a sign of infinite intelligibility as a final cause of intellect.
Actuality intrinsically suggests possibility and necessity.
Any actual thing doing anything suggests other things it could be doing.
Our ability to use experiments to understand the world depends on our ability to recognize the values (for theory, for confirmation, for research, for discovery) a given experiment exhibits.
No theory of sublimity is adequate that cannot include the sublimity of love.
Hooker's four tests of ceremony
(1) intrinsic reasonableness
(2) antiquity
(3) Church Authority
(4) dispensation in dispensable matters
Much of both learning and teaching is trying to find ways to do small things well.
S4.2 and Minkowski spacetime
Classification is a large part of the logic of discovery; we classify then fill gaps, classify and identify anomalies, classify and test membership, classify and compare classifications.
"Conscience and self-love, if we understand our true happiness, always lead us the same way. duty and interest are perfectly coincident, for the most part in this world, but entirely and in every instance if we take in the future and the whole; this being implied in the notion of a good and perfect administration of things." Butler
sench, sink; quench, quink; drench, drink
and thench him until he thinks
"No regularity will ever be found which can make a true substance out of several beings by aggregation." Leibniz
The argument from fulfilled prophecy is essentially a kind of argument from coherence.
objective causation as disposing to end
Human beings generally feel a craving for incorporation into a greater humanity, as if we are missing an integration that we feel should be there.
We may fall in love aesthetically or romantically or socially.
No particular possible worlds model can capture all possibilities.
(1) Different interpretations, different questions/propositions, different truth values;
(2) Something like a diagonal argument representing possible worlds by binary strings (if lists are finite)?
(3) Superpossibles
-- quantum uncertainty and the limits of our precision in forming possible worlds models?
Many universalist arguments only establish that heaven is a higher-order perpetuity than hell, as transfinite to infinite, as plane to line. They then jump to the conclusion that the lower-order perpetuity is not a perpetuity at all.
the palaetiological problem and historical Jesus studies
forms of testimonial evidence of Resurrection
(1) empty tomb stories
(2) appearance stories
(3) ecclesial power stories
the parabolic method in Trinitarian theology
Acts of the Apostles as a work on baptism
Paul mentions baptism in Romans, 1 Corinthians, Galatians, Colossians, Ephesians; it is also mentioned in Hebrews and 1 Peter.
The Father together with the Son brings forth the Spirit.
Reading 1: {The Father together with the Son} brings forth the Spirit.
Reading 2: The Father {together with the Son brings forth the Spirit}.
The 'Greek' view is something like 2-only; the 'Latin', taking the Son as mediate principle, accepts both.
The brief mentions of prophets in the New Testament seem to suggest that their role in the early Church was primarily to facilitate and ease conversion.
If we think of searches (or tests) that can be organized into ensembles of searches, then every ensemble allows us to identify 'search necessity' and 'search impossibility' for the ensemble. Suppose ensemble is e. Then Diamond-e(p) = p comes out true given at least one search in the ensemble; Box-e(p) = p comes out true for every search in the ensembles. We can then iterate modalities. Suppose set of ensembles S that includes e. Then Diamond-sBox(p) = p is the result of every search in at least one ensemble in S; Box-sDiamond(p) = p is the result of at least one search in every ensemble in S. We can perhaps relate this to probabilities.
A possibility: possible worlds frameworks cannot adequately model cases where Diamond -> Box is verified.
The intellect finds peace in what is immutable.
Seeing-as is selective; it implies other possibilities.
figures of speech as recraftings of language suitable for particular purposes
8:27-8:33 as the central idea of Mark's Gospel
Of Mark's fourteen uses of 'Son of Man', two refer to humanity in some fashion, three directly allude to Daniel, nine directly connect the term to the Passion.
"A citizen must always be regarded as a colegislative member fo the state (that is, not merely as a means, but at the same time as an end in himself...." Kant
We live in an ocean of grace, like fish in the sea.
The Book of Odes plays the role it does in Confucianism in part because an unpoetic people are poorly adapted to coherent participation in rites.
All of Kelsen's argument for disentangling justice and law is based on an absurdly defective, even laughable, understanding of justice. This is quite a regular feature of legal positivist arguments on these matters; legal positivism seems often motivated by caricatures of ethics.
Law is a regulative order; some of regulation is correction; some of correction is punishment; some of punishment is coercive use of force.
An account of law that does not recgonize legislative declarations of holidays as laws is already highly defective.
Most human-made laws are concerned with classification rather than coercion.
If only juristic persons existed in law, there would be no connection to social facts such that law could be anything more than a kind of fiction on paper.
Law hypostatizes.
Nothing prevents there being two states to a single territory except a common taste for orderly boundaries and distinct boxes.
It is necessary to see the state as a particular mode of cooperation.
The behaviors of states clearly assumes that there are tacit interstate obligations and rights.
Rhetoric is the field devoted to operationalizing and realizing logical principles.
A system of norms can only function as a system of norms when recognized as such by reason, under rational principles; nothing is a norm except in the context of reason.
Society cannot be sustained by only deserved good; it requires undeserved good.
Our usual experience of positive law is not as coercive but as a shared standard for coordination.
Humanity itself forms the framework of law.
When churchmen think of themselves as 'dialoguing with the world', they are more often dialoguine with phantoms in their heads.
Physicists often have to use colloquial terms analogically.
Scientific explanations often cannot use terms univocally because they have to order colloquial versions of terms to more rigorously defined versions of terms that are treated as more fundamental.
thought experiments as "distillations of practice" (David Gooding)
