Monday, September 19, 2005

This blog is a candlestick. Where is the light?

With light,

Etiam capillus unus habet umbram suam.
—Publius Syrus

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Hegel said of the art of his time: yes, people still write poetry and paint but “however splendid the gods look in these modern works of art, and whatever dignity and perfection we might find in their images of God the Father and the Virgin Mary, it is of no use. We no longer bend our knees.” That was two centuries ago.
—Huston Smith, The Soul of Christianity, 2005, xxiii.

In Greece, theoria referred to the kind of knowledge that one derived from watching the great Greek dramas. Our word “theater,” which derives from it, is closer to its meaning than our word “theory,” which has degenerated from theoria in much the way “belief” has degenerated from more than knowledge (“conviction and the determination to act on it”) to something less than knowledge: “He believed that the world was flat” (The Oxford English Dictionary’s example).
—Ibid., 27.

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Caryl Johnston, “Peak Oil and Prayer”