There was recently some disagreement between different parties at the college. In my catastrophic thinking, this spelled the doom for our little community. To my delight, I found a number of students who had taken it upon themselves to pray. Seeing them reminded me of God’s sovereignty, and showed me that through His power He had … Continue reading Bearing Fruit
There were days I made them laugh. There were days I could barely get a snigger. I was the star or I was the dark space between. Was it the shirt I wore? Was it my haircut? Was it my delivery? My desperation? Like Katie Perry’s Hot N Cold, I couldn’t find my place in the world. … Continue reading Putting Away the Magic Arts
To recognize one’s other as a self is to know a person as a person. Such knowledge goes infinitely further than tolerance or political equality. This post explores how ethical knowledge informs an experience of personhood. Personhood is ultimately a grander and more encompassing pursuit than that of tolerance or human rights alone. For Thomas Aquinas, there are two primary modes of knowledge: the theoretical and the practical. Theoretical knowledge … Continue reading An Encounter with Personhood
The great evil of the current epidemic of outrage is the threefold alienation which is its result. Continue reading “The End of Dialogue: An Examination of Outrage”
We began our reading of Plato’s Theaetetus in Arithmetic today. Like many of the ‘zetetic’ (seeking) dialogues, it focuses upon a central question: What is knowledge? And like many of these dialogues, a question of Socrates, quickly dismissed, is yet worth our attention. In passing, Socrates asks Theaetetus if wisdom is the same thing as knowledge: Knowledge … Continue reading The Pursuit of Wisdom
Above image from http://www.jpaulneeley.com/process.html To remove a single ring from the image above would be to change it, to effect each and every aspect of it. Like a thread hanging from a sweater that promises, if pulled, it will behave, only to wrench some inner joint of the fabric, so is it for me to write on a Platonic dialogue. What I can … Continue reading Betrayal Through Simplification
If you have noticed the disorder and broken links, I am in the process of re-configuring sameandother to a wordpress format. This may take a week or so, so please be patient. Continue reading Switching from Squarespace to WordPress
