Scripture is useful for:
-- Romans 15:3-4
-- -- -- didaskalia: teaching
-- -- -- paraklesis: encouragement
-- 1 Corinthians 10:11
-- -- -- nouthesia: admonition
-- 2 Timothy 3:16-17
-- -- -- didaskalia: teaching
-- -- -- elegmon: reproof [in some mss, elenchon: proof]
-- -- -- epanorthosis: correction
-- -- -- paideia en dikaiosyne: education in justice
Ontological commitment is a modal notion. (Alonzo Church)
Torah is not merely given by God, it is received by Israel; in Torah as covenant, God is not merely imposing law but also making it with Israel, creating a new thing with Israel as a sub-creator of it.
People in literary and academic contexts often say 'bourgeois' when they really mean 'common' or 'vulgar'.
For many arts, there is a techne form and an empeiria entechnos form. (Philodemus)
"Performative contradiction differs from logical contradiction by having some actuality, sc. some act done in fact, though this act is *really distinct* from the act as performative contradiction." James Chastek
Song makes poetry more illuminating.
The humility appropraite toa good metaphysics is a recognition of incompleteness, not a timidity in concluding.
representative vs constructive personation
The Divine Word is the exemplar cause of all myth.
"The monk's whole life tends toward Easter. Its 'Lentent character' ensures that the tension does not slacken." Erik Varden
"No one can become an educated person in school, even in the best of schools or with the most complete schooling." Mortimer J. Adler
"The greater a man's hope in God, the more is express his hope that in God there is greatness of goodness, eternity, power, wisdom, love, perfection, mercy, justice, and the other virtues consonant with God." Llull
"Through faith man believes in God, and through hope man awaits the grace and blessing of God."
"God is that being who needs nothing outside Himself, because in Him exist all perfections."
The single most important mathematical skill is not being tied down by defensiveness or embarrassment when caught in an error.
Gregory of Nyssa on human sublimity: Hom. 2 on Song of Songs
Only what is appropriate as an object of contemplation has intrinsic value. (Although some things, like pleasure, can have an instrumental value that, compared to other things with instrumental value, have a value *as if* intrinsic, due to analogies with contemplation.)
A major end of civil society is to form the conditions for and to facilitate contemplative action and life. It is this end that grounds and defines the autarchy of civil society.
"Let it be assumed that the states by virtue of which the soul possesses truth by way of affirmation or denial are five in number, i.e., techne, episteme, phronesis, sophia, nous; we do not include judgment and opinion because in these we may be mistaken." Aristotle, NE 1139b15-20
While appreciation of the beautiful is not publicmindedness, a civil society that encourages the former will in fact do many things that encourage the latter.
music as unsaturated meaning-framework
-- dance, singing, dramatic & cinematic visuals as ways to help saturate
The active life is a cooperative life.
absurdity punchline // jump scare
Many of our likes and dislikes are received, not original to us nor originated by us.
"...Possibility is the regulative idea for the analysis of wholes into parts. Parts are then possibilities or potentialities with respect to their respective wholes and systems are hierarchies of such possibilities." Scott Buchanan
the manifold of actuality
Genuine repentance is acceptance of judgment even if it is done in hope of mercy.
It is Judaism more than any other culture or religion that makes the world a world.
Our being born not only looks forward to life in the world but also backward to how the world prepared to receive us.
Being is best known in peace.
Beauty suggests truths to us, and more broadly suggests Truth.
A society without a Christian culture will drift into having an anti-Christian one.
Actuality is, so to speak, the possibility of possibility.
the world as the possibility of answers to questions
the agent intellect as liberating light
The sensible is the act of the intelligible.
Speaking and writing are arts; language is a way of taking in the world, the world as suitable for speaking and writing.
God as the exemplar cause of language
language as visible sign of invisible spirit
to seek out the pang of hunger / that you may not forget the pang of hunger
hermenes eisin ton theon (Ion 534c)
language as a way of affecting the world and as a way fo being affected by the world
the world as the reservoir of the not-yet-thought
Logos is the temple of To On; word is the shrine of being.
We do not directly experience language as language; our experience of it is through speaking and writing particular things.
Heidegger tries to understand saying in terms of showing, but in fact it is distinct and only related to showing by analogy.
Language is essentially dialogical, and only is monological insofar as we can conceive ourselves as both unitary and plural speakers.
language as making possible the extension of our personal ambit
Given the postulates of practical reason, it is reasonable to collect and accept suggestive evidences that they are (at least roughly) true, and to collect and accept responses to evidences apparently suggesting otherwise, as long as we can do so without violating what is proven and known.
"The highest ideal, toward which we strive, is to remain in good agreement with the physical world as the guardian of our felicity, without being compelled therefore, to break with teh moral, which determines our dignity." Schiller
"That we pursue something passionately does not always mean that we really want it or have a special aptitude for it. Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have." Eric Hoffer
"Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self."
the sense of sublimity as essential to extended ascetic practice
God as that which makes reasonable hope always a live option
school as a framework for failing gently
the major modes of learning
(1) meditation/reflection
(2) tradition
(3) special investigation
(4) discussion
The true democratic education is good books well read and good speeches well discussed.
A work of art may fail to be expressive in the way the artist intended. This is one of the key phenomena for understanding expressiveness.
Testimonial effects describe parts of their own causal origins. But in an expanded sense, many effects are signs giving information about the causes leading to them. (This could perhaps be adapted into an argument against Hume -- some things in fact tell us that they are effects and also something about their causes.)
Sheet music is a notational description of a normative structure constructed for the use of a musical instrument.
1 Enoch 20:1-8
Uriel: in charge of the world and Tartarus
Raphael: in charge of the spirits of men
Reuel: takes vengenance on the world of the luminaries
Michael: in charge of the good ones of the people
Sariel: in charge of the spirits who sin agains the spirit
Gabriel: in charge of paradise and the serpents and the cherubim
Remiel: in charge of those who rise
Mt 26:24 // 1 Enoch 38:1-2
1 Enoch 39:4-5 -- the righteous dwelling with the angels "petitioning and interceding and praying" for the sons of men
"And righteousness was flowing like water before them, and mercy like dew upon the earth; thus is it among them forever and ever." (39:5b)
garment of glory 1 Enoch 2:15-16
It is generally more accurate to say that we experience things in the Spirit than that we experience the Spirit.
'nihil est sine ratione' as an affirmation that the object of the intellect is being and not a more restricted object, 'being is itself that which is intelligible', 'what is not intelligible is not being'
Wolff's df. of 'principium': quod in se continent rationem alterius
What is, is such that it is able to be.
A tool is a tool as taken up into society.
The divinelike is everywhere.
"The whole world is under the power of death, bound by the love of duality." Sri Guru Granth Sahib 162
"The One who holds all creatures in His hands / is never separated from them; He is with them all. / Abandon your clever devices, and grasp hold of His support. / In an instant, you shall be saved." SGGS 177
"...the plainest things are often least understood, because they are least attended to." Oswald
