tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post4305395330682396089..comments2024-03-29T20:21:24.821+11:00Comments on The Social Pathologist: The Elementary Forces IIThe Social Pathologisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12927698533626086780noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-75857330057342244882012-04-08T23:08:51.036+10:002012-04-08T23:08:51.036+10:00@Brandon
I think you undercut the importance of e...@Brandon<br /><br /><i>I think you undercut the importance of emotion in religious faith. </i><br /><br />I don't think so. Still, religious faith which is motivated by emotion will die with the lack of it. There has to be something deeper.<br /><br />@CL<br /><br /><i>So to understand your correctly, when you refer to a good, you mean some benefit one thing has that the other wants, and that is the source of love.</i><br /><br />Nearly there. Not so much "wants" as is capable of appreciating. <br /><br /><i>but more in terms of a "good of exchange"</i><br /><br />Correct.<br /><br />@Candide III<br /><br /><i>Emotion has become labile because reason has renounced its sovereignty over emotion </i><br /><br />Reason alone is not enough. Staying with someone or something on the basis of cold calculation is still solipsistic.The Social Pathologisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12927698533626086780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-67085512542333730602012-04-07T04:04:20.961+10:002012-04-07T04:04:20.961+10:00I have the movie Double Indemnity, '44. I she...I have the movie Double Indemnity, '44. I shell endeavor to enjoy it again this weekend.arabic58https://www.blogger.com/profile/09593016298203362450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-57132270685840479892012-04-07T01:43:24.231+10:002012-04-07T01:43:24.231+10:00Western society has been hit by a two pronged atta...<i>Western society has been hit by a two pronged attack; bad reason and labile emotion.</i><br />Both prongs sit on the same handle, however. Emotion has become labile because reason has renounced its sovereignty over emotion — what used to be called 'the passions' — and is more often ruled by emotion instead, to its detriment.Candide IIInoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-52159713698370357812012-04-07T00:58:02.176+10:002012-04-07T00:58:02.176+10:00So to understand your correctly, when you refer to...So to understand your correctly, when you refer to a good, you mean some benefit one thing has that the other wants, and that is the source of love.<br /><br />Looks being a "good." You are not talking about a good, as a positive attribute, but more in terms of a "good of exchange"<br /><br />While this may be the start of love, it takes mare than that.<br /><br />I will await your solution to all of this, since you have now discounted both reason and romanticism.<br /><br />Though my instincts tell me it will be an appeal to authoritarianism, since you seem to be of the opinion that certain people are better leaders and people should submit to them, but we shall see.Country Lawyernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-52671398914541642862012-04-07T00:00:11.479+10:002012-04-07T00:00:11.479+10:00I think you undercut the importance of emotion in ...I think you undercut the importance of emotion in religious faith. Emotion is what connects us to our humanity and the humanity of Christ (ie Jesus wept). While emotion shouldn't be the be all end all of everything, a Christian faith that is nothing but steel girded, calculated rationalism is lacking in inspiration. No wonder people turn to secular utopianism as an alternative. Religious faith, in order to be effective, needs to have some form of mystic or romantic quality. Not all of it should be this, but some. <br /><br />Interestingly enough, I think you demonstrate the impotence of reason when you should how impossible it is to reason with the secular utopians. Emotion is very powerful and we as Christians should realize that the stronger emotional narrative usually wins out against rational discourse. Like it or not, Christianity is contra the world and thus at least in some way, romantic. The Enlightenment, which can be traced back to Thomism, ironically, lead to the "death of God" as many thinkers have noted. Indeed, because faith cannot survive on rationalism alone.<br /><br />One last thought which I find to be a salient point against purely rationalistic faith: You cannot reason with evil. Evil is inherently irrational and of limitless bounds. It does not respond to statistics or syllogisms. Instead it must be met with the sword of Truth and Love (both metaphorically and literally).Brandonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-17585328221612530682012-04-06T22:59:55.891+10:002012-04-06T22:59:55.891+10:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.International nursing recruitmenthttp://www.indianrn.com/about_us.htmnoreply@blogger.com