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Posted on 06/14/2002 10:06:06 AM PDT by cornelis
Now there's a surprise -- NOT!!!
What really has me worried these days, cornelis, is that Hitler smuggled his delightful brand of "aesthetics" into social effectiveness in the clear light of day, via the democratic process. No wonder Plato and Aristotle were leery of democracy....
Fine post, cornelis. Thank you!
*perhaps* a new evolving configuration of social units, complete with adjustable infinities, will give us a new plotting diagram for a more successful future. Until then we will indifferently accept our position of demos + kratos as the legitimate status quo fact-on-the-map to endorse all further plotting. Man blesses scientia, scientia blesses man (loose translation of asinus fricat asinum).
Fat chance. Seems to me that all man can do, if left to his own devices exclusively, is to screw things up.
Man blesses scientia, scientia blesses man (loose translation of asinus fricat asinum).
Thanks for the translation, cornelis. I was wondering what all those durned asses were braying about.
Inter-racial marriage: is it biblical?
It is a very positive article, and very encouraging. Hope you enjoy it.
Anyhoot, the context was a comparison of "Northern" vs. "Southern" values and sentiments. But it seems to me we could substitute the terms "liberal" (in its connotation of "socially-progressive") vs. "conservative" respectively and the observation, which IMO directly relates to "race theory," would stand just as well:
"The South hates the abstraction, but loves the individual. The North hates the individual, but loves the abstraction."
Thinking that through, I realized that an abstraction can never be a "neighbor" in the Christian meaning of that word. And although Christians may speak of the Mystical Body, this is not to suggest that they are referring to an abstraction. For a Christian, there are only neighbors, not abstractions. And a neighbor is any human individual with whom one comes into contact. Race is absolutely irrelevant here.
All bearers of the Image of Christ are members of the Mystical Body. And I daresay that non-Christians (and people of different race than our own) are equally bearers of the Image of Christ.
The Fatherhood of God makes all men brothers. And the sacrifice of the Son further clarifies this, and restores us to the Father. For Our Lord said He came for "Jews and Greeks" (or "gentiles") both. (Which statement seems to stand for the concept of "universal humanity" as understood in the historical and cultural milieu at the time of the Incarnation.)
Destroy that foundation, and the Law of the Jungle -- the "survival of the fittest" -- seems to become the operative law for men by default.
Cornelis, the exigencies of human life intrude here: This is Fathers Day weekend. And I have two fathers. The schedule is SET, and not entirely by my own making.
Which is to say I'll reply earliest I can. Meanwhile, any guidance you can provide that explicates the basic problem confronting us on this question would be much appreciated.
Beauty, not aesthetics --- he explained the distinction with originality and in a highly illuminating way.
My pleasure.
Obviously there is more to the Enlightenment than the discovery of economic man. As the article noted, our good friend Karl Marx figured man was nothing but economic, and all of his politics was economic and all his class warfare was enlisted on the road that led in the struggle from capitalism to the great beyond. We are now in that great beyond, according to Fukuyama. You might like reading him.
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