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>>24847461
And I think he was extremely prescient on the Last Man diagnosis. Bizarrely though, while his entire career has revolved around the way liberalism only caters to epithumia (the belly; safety, fear versus pleasure; the concupiscible appetites) and ignored thymos (the chest, honor and recognition, hope versus despair; the irascible appetites) it never seems to have occurred to him that the greater problem for liberalism and modernity more generally is that it offers nothing for logos, the rational appetites for Goodness and Truth as such. But it is precisely "what is truly best" over honors and mere appearances that many revolutionaries have chosen to suffer and die anonymous deaths, monks have chosen asceticism and celibacy, etc. He totally misses how the reign of irony and the logos-skepticism of modernity, the way reason is rendered wholly discursive and instrumental, and all its erotic and ecstatic power stripped out (a commonality of East and West prior to modernity) leads to a "meaning crisis" that is precisely what leaves people flailing for thymotic outlets for their unmet desires. Nor does he seem to get that logos must govern and transform thymos and epithumia at the individual and social level for true freedom; he just assumes, with most liberals, that every adult who isn't oppressed or malformed just becomes free by default. Yet at Epictetus well knew, most masters are slaves (pic related).
Funny enough, in his latest book he makes a vague appeal to virtue when comparing a hardworking daughter who takes care of her invalid mother, goes to school, and participates in politics as against a vidya addicted, drug addled rich kid who doesn't work. But having read his entire corpus, I don't think he has left himself any grounds for such claims of merit aside from sheer emotivism. He is a great example of why Alasdair MacIntyre was right. Those who forbid teleology cannot appeal to merit because no standard for excellence exists.
But even those who go beyond Fukuyama still err because they are scared to be ridiculed by leaving behind the dogmas of modernity. Yet human logos is merely a participation in infinite Logos, and without transfiguration no ascent up Mt. Purgatory is possible, even if Pagan wisdom might allow us to at least grok the Earthly Paradise of utopia. Dante got this, but we have sadly lost this insight.
Unfortunately, we live in a period akin to that of Plotinus or the Desert Fathers. The way forward is inward, every man must flee the World as a sinking ship. Swim for your lives. Only when you have planted your feet on the solid ground of the Logos will you be ready to help others to land.
And I think he was extremely prescient on the Last Man diagnosis. Bizarrely though, while his entire career has revolved around the way liberalism only caters to epithumia (the belly; safety, fear versus pleasure; the concupiscible appetites) and ignored thymos (the chest, honor and recognition, hope versus despair; the irascible appetites) it never seems to have occurred to him that the greater problem for liberalism and modernity more generally is that it offers nothing for logos, the rational appetites for Goodness and Truth as such. But it is precisely "what is truly best" over honors and mere appearances that many revolutionaries have chosen to suffer and die anonymous deaths, monks have chosen asceticism and celibacy, etc. He totally misses how the reign of irony and the logos-skepticism of modernity, the way reason is rendered wholly discursive and instrumental, and all its erotic and ecstatic power stripped out (a commonality of East and West prior to modernity) leads to a "meaning crisis" that is precisely what leaves people flailing for thymotic outlets for their unmet desires. Nor does he seem to get that logos must govern and transform thymos and epithumia at the individual and social level for true freedom; he just assumes, with most liberals, that every adult who isn't oppressed or malformed just becomes free by default. Yet at Epictetus well knew, most masters are slaves (pic related).
Funny enough, in his latest book he makes a vague appeal to virtue when comparing a hardworking daughter who takes care of her invalid mother, goes to school, and participates in politics as against a vidya addicted, drug addled rich kid who doesn't work. But having read his entire corpus, I don't think he has left himself any grounds for such claims of merit aside from sheer emotivism. He is a great example of why Alasdair MacIntyre was right. Those who forbid teleology cannot appeal to merit because no standard for excellence exists.
But even those who go beyond Fukuyama still err because they are scared to be ridiculed by leaving behind the dogmas of modernity. Yet human logos is merely a participation in infinite Logos, and without transfiguration no ascent up Mt. Purgatory is possible, even if Pagan wisdom might allow us to at least grok the Earthly Paradise of utopia. Dante got this, but we have sadly lost this insight.
Unfortunately, we live in a period akin to that of Plotinus or the Desert Fathers. The way forward is inward, every man must flee the World as a sinking ship. Swim for your lives. Only when you have planted your feet on the solid ground of the Logos will you be ready to help others to land.
>Who should I listen to about the Antichrist and Christ?
>My local priest? My bishop? The Church Fathers? The Scriptures?
>Nope, let's get our pointers from a sodomite tech oligarchic who sponsors degenerate right-wing post-moderns.
>My local priest? My bishop? The Church Fathers? The Scriptures?
>Nope, let's get our pointers from a sodomite tech oligarchic who sponsors degenerate right-wing post-moderns.
>>24724981
The only source of true freedom as well.
The only source of true freedom as well.
>>24625011
Boomerism.
>Muh omg it's so hard being born into the luckiest generation in human history where economic life is easy mode and security is so easily had that you can just be an alcoholic drop out partier and then walk into the job factory and own a home ezpz with a firm handshake
>muh freedom as authenticity
>muh freedom as the satisfaction of the appetites
>muh sexual degeneracy is freedom
>muh amphetamines
>muh do what you just so happen to currently want to do bro
Boomerism.
>Muh omg it's so hard being born into the luckiest generation in human history where economic life is easy mode and security is so easily had that you can just be an alcoholic drop out partier and then walk into the job factory and own a home ezpz with a firm handshake
>muh freedom as authenticity
>muh freedom as the satisfaction of the appetites
>muh sexual degeneracy is freedom
>muh amphetamines
>muh do what you just so happen to currently want to do bro
>>24503178
Start with the Greeks. Plato and Aristotle obviously. Also Saint Augustine, Saint Maximus, and Saint Thomas. Boethius for sure, and Cicero. Don't miss Homer and the Aeneid, which set you up for understanding Dante (after Aquinas).
Moderns are mentally ill.
Start with the Greeks. Plato and Aristotle obviously. Also Saint Augustine, Saint Maximus, and Saint Thomas. Boethius for sure, and Cicero. Don't miss Homer and the Aeneid, which set you up for understanding Dante (after Aquinas).
Moderns are mentally ill.
I want to believe in Jesus but I can’t
I struggle with control and OCD. I really want to believe Jesus is real but I can’t.
I’ve heard every intellectual argument and nothing sways me. I’ve been praying for years and asking for signs and revelations but nothing.
I really want to believe but I can’t. I’m asking for any help or advice you can give me. Thanks!
I’ve heard every intellectual argument and nothing sways me. I’ve been praying for years and asking for signs and revelations but nothing.
I really want to believe but I can’t. I’m asking for any help or advice you can give me. Thanks!