Friday, March 25, 2022

"AI . . . is not a creature of God"

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Wycliffe College (cropped)       "A corollary to the claim that AI is a human artifact for use—and artifacts do not enjoy God—is that A...

A remote ancestor of modern Western psychology

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"While the history of psychology as a scholarly study of the mind and behaviour dates back to the ancient Greek philosophers, who devel...
Tuesday, March 22, 2022

The myth of progress

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"although we cannot deny all kinds of progress in detail, the many attempts which have been made to establish a teleology or progress i...
Sunday, March 13, 2022

"the act of attention . . . must conduct us to that brutal threshhold and pull us across it."

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Christian Menghi (cropped) "La verité de l’acte d’attention dont nous parlons doit nous conduire à ce seuil brutal et nous le faire fra...
Saturday, March 12, 2022

"the sleeper, who endeavours to obtain sleep through the whole of life"

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"my discourse does not bring with it an exhortation to every description of men. For it is not directed to those who are occupied in so...

Sleeping through life

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"Do not . . . seek to see with mortal eyes [the First] as our account describes it, nor to see that it is in the way in which someone w...
Saturday, March 5, 2022

"This is the glory of man: to persevere and remain in the service of God."

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Orthodox Christianity       St. Irenaeus, Adv. haer. 4.13.14 (SC 100) =4.25.1 (Harvey), as translated in the Liturgy of the hours for the Of...