Jacob Sherman

Professor of Philosophy and Religion @CIIS_SF • Currently working on Contemplation and the Book of Nature • I mostly post what I’m reading

[Jacob Sherman @Shermanicus]

Philosophy, the study of wisdom, is not one thing & religion another... What is the exercise of philosophy but the exposition of the rules of true religion by which the supreme & principal cause of all things, God, is worshipped with humility & rationally searched for?
— Eriugena

[Jacob Sherman @Shermanicus]

There is no distinction between Poetry and Science, as kinds of knowing, at all. There is only a distinction between bad poetry and bad science.
– Owen Barfield, Poetic Diction 139

[O’Shea Jackson Jr @OsheaJacksonJr]

I saw it. Now you have to see it. His name is Samuel. And he…is a king.

[Jacob Sherman @Shermanicus]

Trinity Sunday!

[Jacob Sherman @Shermanicus]

What philosophy is need not be ascertained by talking about philosophy discursively; it can, and must, be determined by entering into the speculative process in which the thinker explicates his experience of order.
—Eric Voegelin, Order and History II: The World of the Polis, 170

[Jacob Sherman @Shermanicus]

@JoeRoganRecaps Time is the measure of motion (Plato) but there must be some psyche to measure this (Augustine even before Heidegger)… these are more philosophical than physical problems and both Rogan and Thaller are rightly wrestling with them!

[Jacob Sherman @Shermanicus]

Oh isplendor di Dio!
Summer’s going to be lit.

[Cinema Tweets @CinemaTweets1]

BREAKING: Netflix just dropped the first trailer for In the Hand of Dante, featuring Oscar Isaac, Jason Momoa, Al Pacino and Martin Scorsese. This film has been on my radar for such a long time- I can’t believe we’re finally getting the release on June 24th. This looks excellent.

[Jacob Sherman @Shermanicus]

@pensandpoison My daughter read a lot of Dostoevsky while 15. This is wonderful, should be encouraged, and not at all pretentious. It’s a really good read, actually!

[✮ راينر براون @dondawastaken]

Never forget that you are the main data center. Drink water, and consume as much literature as possible.

[Aelfred The Great @aelfred_D]

Old Melchizedek is a numinous man,
Gleaming gold his tunic is, and his sandals they are tan.
None has ever known him yet, for Mel, he is the Prefiguration:
His works are stranger works, and his food is true libation.

[john milbank @johnmilbank3]

The great Ivan Illich and AI https://t.co/CR1TAkQsh5

[Jacob Sherman @Shermanicus]

How angels make their concepts manifest to others must be understood by analogy with natural things, for the reason that natural forms are, as it were, images of immaterial things, as Boethius says.
— St Thomas Aquinas, De Veritate 9.4.c

[Jacob Sherman @Shermanicus]

You really should have read it first

[Chris Fralic @chrisfralic]

I used AI to process the "Magnifica Humanitas" encyclical letter from @Pontifex about AI, turning 37,000 words into a 7 minute video

[Jacob Sherman @Shermanicus]

Do you really think so? On my reading, while soft spoken, he threw down the gauntlet several times in ways that really sting the Silicon Valley elite and their coastal confreres (oligarchic capture of AI culture, AI is not a moral agent/patient pace Anthropic, inevitability arguments are technocratic propaganda, globalization hugely backfired, etc.).

[Joseph Nolla, SJ @josephnollasj]

“Pope Leo was a math major? I wonder what his encyclicals will be like”

Like this

[Dr Francis Young @DrFrancisYoung]

The first step on the way to the eventual declaration of Tolkien as a Doctor of the Church

[Jacob Sherman @Shermanicus]

Pope Leo citing Plato’s Seventh Letter for the win: “As Plato wrote, the deepest and most important things are learned only… by engaging in discussion with others, "striking upon" ideas and experiences together like flint until the spark of understanding is kindled within us.”

[Jacob Sherman @Shermanicus]

@zenahitz @johnhboyer Whoah,wait, is this also a problem at St John’s? Crestfallen.

[Jacob Sherman @Shermanicus]

When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.
– Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value, 65

[Leo Papa XIV @Pontifex_ln]

Humanae naturae sensus experimur noctem, sicuti technologiae effrenatus profectus cum humanae dignitatis damno ostendit. Oportet ergo novum acquiramus intellectum verae significationis veraeque humani generis magnificentiae, secundum Dei sapientiam. Cum his diebus certamen non autem technologicum, sed anthropologicum adeamus, Litteras encyclicas intra paucos dies edituras conferre posse ad hanc provocationem explendam speramus.

[Jacob Sherman @Shermanicus]

The ashtree growing in the corner of the garden was felled. It was lopped first: I heard the sound and looking out and seeing it maimed there came at that moment a great pang and I wished to die and not see the inscapes of the world destroyed any more.
— Gerard Manley Hopkins