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To: WPaCon
One of the best, and most-underrated, authors of all time.

IIRC he wrote a preface / foreword for a P.G. Wodehouse collection.

The Great Heresies is one of my favorite books, along with The Servile State.

Here is my favorite quote from The Great Heresies -- it's from today's chapter:

But the Faith and the use of the intelligence are inextricably bound up. The use of reason is a main part — or rather the foundation — of all inquiry into the highest things. It was precisely because reason was given this divine authority that the Church proclaimed mystery — that is, admitted reason to have its limits. It had to be so, lest the absolute powers ascribed to reason should lead to the exclusion of truths which the reason might accept but could not demonstrate. Reason was limited by mystery only more to enhance the sovereignty of reason in its own sphere.

Shades of The Unmoved Mover and Gödel all in one paragraph.

(Sound of grey_whiskers purring LOUDLY.)

Cheers!

11 posted on 03/31/2011 9:44:43 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

I agree. The man’s a genius. I need to read more of him.


14 posted on 03/31/2011 10:22:20 PM PDT by WPaCon (Obama: pansy progressive, mad Mohammedan, or totalitarian tyrant? Or all three?)
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