Cell Phones, Radio, and the Philosophy of Marshall McLuhan
“Hot” media and “cool” media were McLuhan’s buzz dichotomy. A hot medium is one that extends one of our senses. A cool medium is one that requires a lot from one of our senses.
Philosophy
The Difference between "Reason" and "Rationality"
Reason
Greek nous
Latin intellectus
Reason is flexible. It resists fixed formulation. It is shaped by experience. It involves the whole living being, combining the mental and physical . . . the spiritual and material. It is the intellectual glue of sacramental existence. It is characterized by intuition.
Reason is "congenial to
How Have These Ten Extensions Changed Us?
Toward the end of his life, Marshall McLuhan provided a list of the ten things that have changed us the most.
Perhaps the biggest difference between childhood and adulthood is time. The adult frantically looks for more time. The child looks for ways to fill time.
I filled a lot
Ten Totally Impractical Observations about Life that You Need to Hear
I don't think Fr. Schall knew it, but his book is a relentless celebration of the right hemisphere.
The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times
Robert Zaretsky at The American Scholar
The Stoics and Me
As an uptight Christian, I've sought spiritual counsel from St. John the Apostle to Thomas Merton, from Augustine through Aquinas to Guardini. They all helped.
But I still suffered from uptightness and swings of passion: worry about the future; sudden bursts of good emotional energy, mortgaged with my
The Reality of Fr. Damien
A few years ago, the future of the Catholic Church AOC said a statue of Fr. Damien of Molokai at the Capitol building is an example of “patriarchy and white supremacist culture.”
She quickly realized that she picked a bad example and backpedaled faster than Deion Sanders in his prime,
The Hemisphere Hypothesis Changes Everything
And since "everything" is dictated by modernity's rationalist and gnostic presumptions and conclusions, it's a good thing
"On the Heart," by The Pseudo-Macarius
Every sin gushes from a complex soul. The Pseudo-Macarius, a master of intimate theology, described the heart (a term nearly synonymous with soul) as follows:
"The heart itself is but a small vessel, yet dragons are there, and there are also lions; there are poisonous beasts and all the
Leisure is Counter-Conduct
In the modern world of "total work" demanded by the left hemisphere, we need to carve out leisure. It's helpful to understand what "leisure" is.