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Showing posts with label wisdom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wisdom. Show all posts
Thursday, November 12, 2015
Sophia
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Renewable Ignorance by Herman Daly (EB)
Daly gets Aquinas wrong: "Which error are we most likely to commit today? I believe we overemphasize Descartes and pay too little attention to Aquinas. I take Aquinas’s “higher things” to mean purposes, knowledge about right purposes." Aquinas, following Aristotle, is saying that the knowledge of divine things is intrinsically more valuable than knowledge of lower things. Still, his main point is correct - we should be asking whether our practices (to use MacIntyre's terms) are properly ordered to human goods, and we should be reflecting more upon what those goods are. (Hence the importance of seeking guidance from those who are wise, rather than relying upon bad reasoning masquerading as science or philosophy.)
Daly gets Aquinas wrong: "Which error are we most likely to commit today? I believe we overemphasize Descartes and pay too little attention to Aquinas. I take Aquinas’s “higher things” to mean purposes, knowledge about right purposes." Aquinas, following Aristotle, is saying that the knowledge of divine things is intrinsically more valuable than knowledge of lower things. Still, his main point is correct - we should be asking whether our practices (to use MacIntyre's terms) are properly ordered to human goods, and we should be reflecting more upon what those goods are. (Hence the importance of seeking guidance from those who are wise, rather than relying upon bad reasoning masquerading as science or philosophy.)
Monday, February 01, 2010
Seminars About Long-term Thinking with Wade Davis
Wade Davis, “The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World” (via EB)
Audio file of the talk given at Cowell Theatre in Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, California on Wednesday January 13, 02010.
Is the West so bereft from the same kind of wisdom? Or people just alienated from it and Christianity?
Gathering the folk widsom of people around the world and banking it so that solutions to our current mess can be found seems like a good idea. (It's like banking all kinds of seeds in case of catastrophe.) But such a study can seem rather haphazard with respect to the sorting of what has been collected, until one has the scientia and sapientia to know what can be applied and what cannot. I'm not so enthusiastic about the collecting of false religions and spiritualities that are supposed to be more "natural" because they seem more "primitive," when in fact they are probably results of the fallen nature of man.
(An upcoming seminar will have Alan Weisman.)
Audio file of the talk given at Cowell Theatre in Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, California on Wednesday January 13, 02010.
Is the West so bereft from the same kind of wisdom? Or people just alienated from it and Christianity?
Gathering the folk widsom of people around the world and banking it so that solutions to our current mess can be found seems like a good idea. (It's like banking all kinds of seeds in case of catastrophe.) But such a study can seem rather haphazard with respect to the sorting of what has been collected, until one has the scientia and sapientia to know what can be applied and what cannot. I'm not so enthusiastic about the collecting of false religions and spiritualities that are supposed to be more "natural" because they seem more "primitive," when in fact they are probably results of the fallen nature of man.
(An upcoming seminar will have Alan Weisman.)
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