Jonathan Culbreath

Catholic Theocrat | philosopher | freetimer | essayist | church musician |

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@FeserEdward Thank you for this common sense

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"What is the point of all this otherness? If, in theory, I can contemplate in man everything that exists in the lesser creatures, what is the point of their otherness from man? To make it more personal, if I as a human being contain in myself, both actually and potentially, all..

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...my mind? What is the point of other people, even? Do I not contain in myself, at least potentially, all that it means to be human? From the point of view of a contemplative being, one who can say Cogito, ergo sum, what is the contemplative value of anything other than myself?"

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"The world desires the form of humanity. In general, matter desires form, but more specifically, it desires the form of man. The history of the world, including both biological evolution and human history, is but the history of the world’s striving to become human..."

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Will there be flowers in heaven? https://t.co/1YssGX0aNV

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Will there be flowers in heaven? https://t.co/1YssGX0aNV

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Thomas Aquinas on the End of History
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Here's what I do in the majority of my life these days.
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Identity Politics

"Everywhere you look, oppressors and their victims will dehumanize and victimize each other... Unfortunately, the temptation to dehumanize each other is one of our most human and most consistent defects. Vengeance reigns supreme."
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Alexandre Kojeve, "Descartes and Buddha."

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Another rambling philosophical defense of the study of history, inspired by my reading of DeKoninck.

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New installment on the Substack:

The Possibilities of [My] Being
https://t.co/rWmOercgJV

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...because I recognize myself in them—because I recognize that that could have been me."

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New installment on the Substack:

The Possibilities of [My] Being
https://t.co/rWmOercgJV

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...insignificant possibilities which it is more statistically bound to realize. I recognize myself, or all my possible selves, in all of this: the good, the bad, the in-between conditions of human nature. And I learn to empathize with and respect all men, ...

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Another memory: a truly astounding passage from DeKoninck in defense of the study of history.

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DeKoninck: the study of history is good for its own sake, not merely in a pragmatic sense. The gathering up of the whole universe into our minds is necessary to know ourselves as the Angels know themselves: intuitively, comprehensively, universally.

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A memory. Charles DeKoninck, my favorite Thomist, in defense of the end of history.

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DeKoninck, on Nietzsche's eternal recurrence and on time as a spiral: "Most Christians have a monstrous idea of history. The summit of history would be in the past, and the world would be henceforth in a state of degeneracy. We descend henceforth to hell. But the mass of...