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Category: Metahistory

  • The Order of Things

    The Order of Things

    Establishing the natural order of things, from birth to old age. What is worth loving. One loves one’s neighbor for what there is of God in him and not for what he puts of himself in himself, that is, his sins, his whims, his personal ideas. We love him in the measure that he is…

  • Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives

    Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives

    Cologero had mentioned this book, coincidentally, at the same time that I had stumbled across it myself, so I finally made the purchase, and finished reading it. I found it most helpful; Elder Thaddeus is simultaneously very strict (insofar as he sets out an arduous teaching) and yet very compassionate, encouraging, and “human”: at one…

  • NeoPlatonism & Orthodoxy

    An Eastern Orthodox response to Protestant critique reveals some very interesting facts about the tradition. First of all, it considered itself to build upon classical tradition: Towards late antiquity, two words were in philosophical use which meant substance or substantive being. As Aristotle put it, being can be said in many ways or there are…

  • The Great Migration

    The Great Migration

    From Hyperborea to the modern world.