In his beautiful reflection on the Catholic Intellectual Tradition given at Regensburg Pope Benedict affirms the “profound harmony between what is Greek in the best sense of the word and the Biblical understanding of faith in God.” He points to this “profound harmony” at work in the beginning of John’s Gospel. “In the beginning [...]
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My Aim
Posted in God, Socrates, anyone, beginnings, books, conjunctions, cosmos, dialogue, greek, history, language, logic, love? on April 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
for my novel class
Posted in Dostoevsky, Goethe, Indian Summer, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Kant, Werther, books, crannies, dialogue, eccentric, exceptions, fate, idiosyncrasy, language, latin, letters, logic, love?, mania, necessity, nooks, novel, speed, spring, stars, summer, sun, the grave, time, wind, wisdom, wit on March 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Jean Paul Richter’s Maria Wuz: Inversions of Time, Nooks, Exceptions to the Rule, Interpolations and a Room for Man Cut out of, or Built into, the Universe
Proceeding according to no a priori principle, but seeking rather to treat of Jean Paul’s “Life of Maria Wuz, Merry Dominie of Auenthal” without wronging its delightfully angled discourse [...]
how long does it take to know how to go on?
Posted in anyone, logic, time on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If I whistle a tune I know well and am interrupted in the middle, if then someone asks me “did you know how to go on?” I should answer “yes. I did.” What sort of process is this knowing how to go on? It might appear as though the whole continuation of the tune had [...]
Remember Melos
Posted in annihilation, athens, beginnings, cry, defeat, dialogue, greek, history, lacedaemon, logic, melos, necessity, polis, stars, thucydides, tragedy, wisdom, wit on October 20, 2008 | 6 Comments »
That’s Melos to the North.
We told them ”we don’t want you to think you can persuade us by saying you did not fight on the side of the Lacedaemonians in the war, though you were their colony, or that you have done us no injustice. Instead, let’s work out what we can do on the basis [...]
