Tag: Martin Heidegger
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The Temptation of Saint Anthony
A farmer’s product might be wheat; a builder’s, a house; and so on. But for the intellectual class — e.g., journalists, lawyers, politicians — their very product is words. That is why, in the news media, concrete acts matter less than what people say, and beliefs are more important than truth. Hence, the discussion is…
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Gasping for Air
So the solution to the lack of gnosis is not to read another book or study a philosopher on-line; these are pointless without restraining passions and overcoming evil habits. The Fathers described eight provocations that keep us in bondage: gluttony, lust, greed, anger, depression, boredom, vanity, and pride.
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Freedom and Destiny
Freedom is the opposite of compulsion. A serious man takes his life seriously.
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The Spiritual Regeneration of the World
it is the man of vision, the man of action, who understands and engages in the greater and lesser battles who will bring it about. The world is not awaiting a new theory, since there is nothing new under the sun.
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Tilting at Windmills
The real difficulty [in understanding metaphysics] is the mental assimilation needed to arrive at this result; there are certainly many minds that are quite incapable of it, and it is easy to gauge how far this effort transcends the scope of mere works of erudition. There is only one really profitable of studying doctrines: in…