by cutsinger | Mar 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
Would I please “describe”, you ask, “the general or characteristic tendencies of contemporary academic discourse in the humanities”? I would describe them, of course, as appalling! I doubt you were looking merely for an adjective or epithet in...
by cutsinger | Feb 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
You’ve come to realize, you say, that the choice we’re seemingly given between a life of pleasure, ease, and sin, on the one hand, and a life of constant weariness and ascetic hardship, on the other, is actually a “false dichotomy”. Renouncing...
by cutsinger | Jan 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
A former graduate student of mine, a Roman Catholic like you—and having, like you, a serious interest in the philosophia perennis and the contemplative paths of the world’s orthodox religions—researched the question you pose with some care. And when...
by cutsinger | Jan 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
Platonic knowledge is more than mental assent to a proposition; it’s the vision of the whole man, rightly formed by training in geometry, music, and gymnastics (among other arts). The writer of the rather jejune article you cite, claiming as he does that Plato...
by cutsinger | Dec 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
I was recently looking over your little book on The Life Aligned, and I was struck by what you said (on pp. 14-15) about the “need” of His Endlessness. As you note, Gurdjieff calls us to conscious suffering as our part in an “extraordinary...
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