ResIntellecta @ResIntellecta

Theohistorophilosophoid Alexandria Joined July 2022

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Hyperion @Ortgeist

2 months ago

Goethe's Home in Weimar, Germany

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ResIntellecta @ResIntellecta

2 months ago

Those who understand themselves and others Will come to realize: Orient and Occident Can no longer be separated. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, West-Eastern Divan

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Isaac the Sacrificial @Sacrifice_Isaac

a year ago

The world is neither God Himself nor something logically other than God and alien to Him in this sense. The world is the ‘vestment’ or ‘flesh’ of God, ‘the other of God Himself,’ or (to cite Nicholas of Cusa) the explicatio Dei. - Semyon Frank

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Jacob Sherman @Shermanicus

5 months ago

The intellect arrives at the end of its route not when it reaches the truth in the act of judgment but rather when the whole person becomes committed to freely giving himself as a gift to others. It is love that brings reason to fulfillment… a ‘via cognitionis.’ — Pope Francis

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ResIntellecta @ResIntellecta

6 months ago

For Cusa, the term “theoria” literally connotes “to run,” “to see,” and “God.” Thus, to thoerize is to “run to see God.” Taken together with its original sense of con-templating gods at religious festivals, the modern sense assuredly betrays its roots.

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john milbank @johnmilbank3

6 months ago

‘[The One] makes itself…from nothing’. (Plotinus) — everything else is made from the One. It’s the right way to think about things. Seriously radical. Eriugena follows suit.

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john milbank @johnmilbank3

6 months ago

Nearly all really significant modern technological breakthroughs occurred in the 19thC. Since then it has just been a matter of refinement, development and increasing combinations of tools with diverse purposes, resulting eg in television or the iPhone I am typing on now.

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« 𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘶𝘴 » @_bonaventurian

7 months ago

🧵How to get into the works of Cr. Nicholas of Cusa Cusanus was one of the most brilliant, yet eclectic & difficult theologians to get a solid grasp of. I've poured over much secondary literature and his own works to do so. Here are my recommendations: (Links in the last tweet)

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St. Thomas Aquinas @Aquinas_Quotes

7 months ago

Beauty includes three conditions: 1) integrity or perfection 2) due proportion or harmony; 3) and lastly, brightness or clarity (ST 1.39.8).

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Iris Murdoch @IrisMurdoch

9 months ago

'Impossible to read Plato without seeing that the whole of religion is there as well as the whole of philosophy & that they are one.' Iris Murdoch's Journal, 30th May 1975