Laziness is a kind of sadness - Thomas Aquinas
When transcendence, truth and symbolism are removed from the cosmos, we are left with a utilitarian universe containing little more than the useful and the useless, the pleasant and the unpleasant. - Joseph Lumbard
"We can now recognize that the fate of the soul is the fate of the social order; that if the spirit within us withers, so too will all the world we build about us. Literally so. 1/2
"What, after all, is the ecological crisis that now captures so much belated attention but the inevitable extroversion of a blighted psyche?" 2/2 - Theodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends
Postmodern/CT folks refuse to *ever* explain how, if language/ reason/ knowledge is produced by power, how *their* language/knowledge/reason somehow escapes that determinism. - Caner Dagli
“Wait guys, if the human subject is itself constructed by power relationships, doesn’t that mean *your* ideas are constructed by power relationships too, making them just as suspect?” - Caner Dagli
The Master said: At fifteen I set my heart upon learning. At thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground. At forty, I no longer suffered from perplexities. At fifty, I knew what were the biddings of Heaven. At sixty, I heard them with docile ear. At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart, without overstepping the boundaries of right. - Confucius
Also from Prof. Dagli:
“We teach people that they are accidents, and we spend *zero* time in the public sphere talking about how this cradle-to-grave indoctrination of purposeless mechanistic biology might just make it impossible for people to take morality and truth seriously at a deep level.
We cannot teach generations of human beings that each and every one of us is a random pattern of molecules, and then be surprised when large numbers of us decide that it makes little sense to care if people they don’t know and will never meet will live, die, or suffer.
The critics of so-called social Darwinism have the same exact account of human nature as those they deplore. What arguments can they offer as to *why* they shouldn't act as if other people were meaningless cosmic accidents, which "smart" people are required to believe anyway?”