Thank You. #heroes

This 1920s map divides the world among just five superstates: bit.ly/37bhbXx

People with greater intellectual humility have superior general knowledge. bit.ly/2KPAZc8

A materialist definition of genius is impossible, which is why the idea of genius is so discredited in an age like our own, where materialist ideologies dominate... Genius, by necessity, invokes the transcendental and the extraordinary, because it is fully conscious of them.

The novel, from Cervantes to Proust, created a metaphysical and ethical splendor that wanes only now in the Age of the Screen.

The precursors flood us, and our imaginations can die by drowning in them, but no imaginative life is possible if such inundation is wholly evaded.

Due to colonial exposure such Muslim anxieties about modernity are premature/overblown. Modernity is a European story only historically and not theologically. This naive nostagia for a self-denying conception of Islam notwithstanding, Islam itself was an early stage of modernity.

The fence-placers knew you would think so and they placed them in such a way that they govern you “outside the box”, your little box.

Excellent essay. In the “origins speak” it isn’t only the issue of multicausality in terms of the structural-historical factors but also the elusive role of the creativity-agency of the actors—and in this Muhammad is one among many in the story of crystallization of Islam.

"Therefore, we may consequently state that: this world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related"-- Plato, The Timaeus.

Related: The standard world map vs. the true size of each country in relation to the rest brilliantmaps.com/mercator-vs-tr…

Militant atheism is truly worse than religious militancy. For it is a more dangerous type of bigotry. Dawkins, seek your salvation and repentence in the humanities. Anthro or history will humble you.

As multiplicity, we are a broken unity. From love to solidarity, or from the dictatorship of the Proleteriat to the commandment to love your neighbor, all the ideals we cling to so desperately are glues we use to reach that lost unity.

Descartes is the fisherman who caught himself in his net.

“All birth is birth from darkness into light; the seed kernel must be sunk into the earth and die in darkness so that the more beautiful shape of light may lift it and unfold itself in the radiance of the sun” -- F.W.J. Schelling, Freiheitsschrift, 1809.

NEOLIBERALISM IS DEAD. SAY HELLO TO TECHLORDISM After 1971, neoliberalism was an ideology essential in legitimising the emancipation of financial capital from the regulatory shackles of the New Deal and the post-war Bretton Woods system. Today, a new form of capital is on the

Alasdair MacIntyre’s moral bombshell - the opening pages of After Virtue app.theneweuropean.co.uk/story/136543/c…

The birth of ecology – Emily Dickinson, Ernst Haeckel, and how life on Earth came abloom themarginalian.org/2022/02/04/uni…

“There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.” - C.S. Lewis