Machiavelli Would've Used the N' Word (if It Would've Advanced the Prince)
Machiavelli was probably the first person to advocate a rationalist system in contradiction to irrationalist norms.
How Do We Account for Thomas Merton?
Thomas Merton started as a writer, became a Trappist monk with genuine insight into the spiritual life, and then wrapped himself in worldly activism. What happened?
Neil Young Never Hated the Man
He just hated THAT man
Montaigne: The Godfather of 4Chan?
💡Montaigne was the godfather of modern skepticism. His was a “negative skepticism,” which disturbed Descartes enough to prompt him to come up with a positive response, which in turn gave us modernity, its fierce subjectivism, and the parade of “little gods” that have marred the last 200+ years.
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Why David Hume is Important
💡Within 100 years, the Cartesians used impeccable logic derived from Descartes' I think there I am to reach two conclusions: there is no earthly agent of movement and there is no matter. There is only God and mind. Hume yanked God and mind out of these conclusions and the
The Gnostic is a Believer
Part III of an Analysis of Eric Voegelin's Six Gnostic Traits
150 Years that Shook Europe
The years 1309 through 1453 made Europe redefine itself.
When Western Civilization Submitted Itself to a Lobotomy
Descartes' dualism was obviously wrong, but it won over western civilization.
Descartes Praised Lycurgus. It’s Our Earliest Glimpse of the Problem with Modernist Thinking
There’s a direct line between Descartes’ admiration for Lycurgus and modernity’s parade of love affairs with strong leaders who would use rationality to impose their subjective reality on the world.
A Dozen Quotes from Prometheus Bound: A Play about Spiritual Disease
Prometheus' proud defiance of the divine order made him into a raving maniac. He lost his connection to the Tao: the transcendental router.