Philosophical Speculations

It goes to show how, if we start with a preconceived narrative, the developments can always be seen as supporting that narrative. Indeed! For once, let it be me telling you how you are feeling. You started with an evangelically inspired evil view on the RCC, and now you want to feel that you have ...

There is this widespread mistaken notion, perhaps held over from previous centuries, that the Church is somehow a political actor and that it should operate at the level of positivist earthly governance. Like we have discussed, this is simply not the function of the Church in the hypermodern era ...

... This comment will lack development, but in a nutshell, the idea of marked separation between the doctrinal and the pastoral seems to me at risk of becoming intellectual, counterproductive, and even materialist in a certain sense. It reminds me of what Steiner lamented with regards to modern ...

The reply is short because I've only my phone with me. Yes, sure, I agree that a church or cathedral is almost always a special, quiet place that invites prayer and introspection, probably more than an average university library. I appreciate it also, occasionally, although I'm not a member of any ...

Well the quote is about the value of Scholastic thought and its quality of precision developed in the quiet surroundings of the monastery. It does not suggest that because they developed thought in those propitious conditions in the 1200s, then today we should rediscover the RCC as a host for ...

The ideal of “healing” borrowed by Levin’s "freedom of embodiment" from diffuse moral generalities, is instantly betrayed by his superimposed “longevity” motives, for example. The seemingly moral guideline is only a very thin mask on what for all intents and purposes comes down to “manipulating the ...

This question does seem to relate quite directly to what Rodriel and Cleric had discussed before. In this post , for example, Rodriel pointed toward the way in which the modern intellectual soul can degenerate into an 'evil twin' of the sentient soul. In the ancient Egyptian epoch, there was indeed ...

I would like to add a comment about the off-topic of gender introduced above. Not sure whether this needs to be split off from this thread. As an aside pointing to a possible connection between the two topics - gender and the Catholic project - it could be said that the impulse to preserve, maintain ...

In clarifying the origin of of my esoteric communications, as you put it, the emphasis is really around clarifying when I am merely re-expressing something Steiner has said, which should never carry the weight of final authority but serves its proper function as a stimulus for personal and ...

Greetings, all. This is my first post on the forum, and I just want to share how grateful I am to have discovered your conversations and to be able to follow this discussion in particular from my inbox. Thank you. I have only made it through the posts from mid-October so I apologize if what I am ...