“One will thus distinguish the philosophical schema of man’s natural aspiration toward God (Blondel) from the theological structure of man’s transformation by God (de Lubac). The latter (the theologian) indeed possesses over the former (the philosopher) the advantage of avoiding

Remember when Trevor Moore did this skit. He died by "falling from a balcony" in 2021. Probably nothing.

Steven Kammerer 🦬 Newtonian physics does not involve any supernatural elements—far less than Cartesian physics, in fact, which recognizes the cogito precisely as the connection between extended (natural) and spiritual (supernatural) substances. We are on completely opposite sides of the fence

One simple reason LLMs aren't intelligent: They aren't doing anything at all except relative to a human. The action we ascribe to them is completely relative to our purposive agency. Is it calculating, writing, making a buzzing noise, etc? Its telos is relative to a human agent

HOW CAN YOU NOT BE ROMANTIC ABOUT USA HOCKEY?! PLAY THAT FUCKING FREE BIRD 🦅🇺🇸

When hockey was invented this is what they envisioned

But as we know from the sacrament of penance, preservation comes at a price. Psychic “autonomy” presupposes confessional hygiene. What is called “metaphysics” is as entirely regenerated in Christ as the repentant convert is. But how many metaphysicians consistently recognize

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While I disagree with john milbank’s high esteem on the specific value of “democracy,” due to its intrinsic Pelagian drift towards a priority of epistemic consciousness over ontological truth (as I outline in “The City of the Moon & Obediential Potency”; see my pinned post), the

anna kw✨ ANTIPATER Ahte Syed Thank you! Have just completed an essay in line with this, arguing that Marx’s materialist analysis of capitalism is true just because capitalism is relentlessly materialist, but that to read all history in materialist and class-conflict terms is to project back capitalist logic.

anna kw✨ ANTIPATER Ahte Syed In reality the most *rigorous* historicist explanation of the rise of capitalism is in terms of an only materially-occasioned shift in mentality unique to the west. A total perversion of Christianity that de-ethicises and disembeds the economic. And the political actually.

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Canada is insanely stacked - perhaps the best team ever assembled. If the US manages to somehow beat them it will be the greatest hockey upset against a Communist power since the Miracle on Ice.

Vladimir Solovyov completely mogging Richard Dawkins’ “selfish gene” thesis with his Christian theurgical metaphysics of the organic nearly a full century avant la lettre: “The essence and the chief purpose of the animal life undoubtedly consists in perpetuating, through

From the outset I take great pride in being in direct academic lineage with Alasdair MacIntyre only one degree removed. My favorite professor did her PhD at Notre Dame under him and so I have an immense love and debt of gratitude to her and him, may he rest in peace with the

“Thus economic socialism in the social sphere, positivism in the epistemological sphere, and utilitarian realism in the artistic sphere—this constitutes the final word of Western civilization. Is this then also the final word of all human development? The immutable laws of this

Hegel is once again just centuries ahead of his contemporaries here by critically anticipating Schreber and also prefiguring both the post-critical epistemology of Michael Polanyi and the phenomenology of attention and agency of Matthew Crawford. As explicated in the quote,

QUINN HUGHES! USA WINS! 🦅

Like literally what is Quinn Hughes? Waves off the coach to stay on the ice in OT Then dances around out there, rolled the Swedish players into a bunch of meatballs and snipes one post-in Guy has no pulse