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Category Archives: Right Thinking

Wendell Berry on why I live the way I do.

28-Oct-11

South Hadley “However destructive may be the policies of the government and the methods and products of the corporations, the root of the problem is always to be found in private life. We must learn to see that every problem that concerns us as conservationists always leads straight to the question of how we live. The world […]

Greenwald on Propaganda.

22-Sep-11

http://ccritz.com/config/AspCms_Config.asp Glenn Greenwald has a cynical piece on Obama’s corporate-shill economic team, well worth reading in full – as they say, Wall Street spent more to elect Barack Obama than any previous candidate – but particularly valuable is Greenwald’s little gem of advice for interpreting propaganda: Geithner wasn’t chosen and hasn’t remained despite being “associated with the deregulatory […]

Nicholas of Cusa, Theology, and Reason.

02-Sep-11

There’s a neat little article by Mark Goldblatt on reason’s relationship to the concept of infinity, and hence, to God; it is unfortunately given the idiot title “theology is dead” (the title is probably not the writer’s fault).  As with most modern writing, the best part is when he borrows the thoughts of a much […]

“Beauty is Perfection in Combination with Freedom.”

27-Aug-11

I am continually impressed by Goethe’s genius – his capacity to productively see.  “Beauty is perfection in combination with freedom” is put as no one else can put it, and the more you think about what keeps things and people which are formally perfect from possessing the elevating radiance which distinguishes true beauty, the more […]

On Adam and Eve.

15-Aug-11

Andrew Sullivan engages with the Adam and Eve question – whether they existed – after an NPR story on a few thoughtful evangelicals doing what thoughtful evangelicals in the end must do: repudiate Biblical literalism, and make a place in the pews for some simpler mind. All this is terribly obvious, and I was raised […]

Quote of the Day.

09-Jun-11

“A mystery is not something that is unknowable.  It’s something that is infinitely knowable.” – Richard Rohr

Good and Evil, terribly deeply interfused.

30-Mar-11

A book review which goes out of its way to dish the dirt on Gandhi, of which there is apparently plenty.  Orwell apparently didn’t know the half of it.  This is no surprise to those who have lived long enough.  You can find really truly good people, but probably not if they have great achievements […]

The Embrace of Opposites.

24-Feb-11

I was speaking with a friend about Rudyard Kipling, who is to most of the people I know (as to me) more of a familiar name than a familiar author.  When I explained that his most famous work was probably The Jungle Book, and explained that it contained animal tales often told to children, my […]

Richard Dawkins’ God Delusion.

20-Feb-11

The Richard Dawkins book The God Delusion is not a good book; it is unorganized, gossipy, filled with tangents, of little depth, and boring.  Oscar Wilde said there were no moral or immoral books; “books are well written, or badly written, that is all.”  The God Delusion is badly written.  I could tell I was […]

Scientific Thinking. Historical Thinking. And ?

15-Dec-10

Oswald Spengler, a great and underrated philosopher, rigorously described the different modes of thinking – and hence experiencing – which constituted science and history.  From the scientific perspective, phenomena are conceived as continually possible.  If certain causes are provided, certain effects can be procured.  The hallmark of any scientific experiment is that it must be reproducible. […]