Tag Archives: Epistemology

Unfinished Personal/Global Musings II (Valentin Tomberg on Disintegration – Death)

My last web entry tried to introduce the personal context within which I try to grapple with Global Warming. It is the context, as I said, of  a practising Catholic aspiring to deep and very regular Sacramental Communion. It is also that of ongoing study of Catholic Tradition and the history of the transition from a Western medieval Catholic world [...]
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It´s the Epistemology, Stupid!

There is a very fine book by James Kunstler, called Home from Nowhere. It is about the tragedy of the American built environment. That is, it tells of  how virtually every American town and city tends towards losing its distinct identity, its sense of being a special place in its own right. Instead of existing as sites [...]
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What Happens?

What happens? When life’s most profound and important matters … matters which all people variously name as beauty, morality, love, mystery and the Sacred … Are no longer treated as such by the culture around us? Because they cannot be empirically proven and established as having anything beyond relative, subjective or private value? What happens … When, because of [...]
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