Three Brief Points
I was thinking...
While some of us pretend to be philosophers, mathematicians, and so forth (when anyone who knows me knows that I am a blue collar working stiff) there seems to be three points I'd like to keep in mind in my long winded inquiries here:
1) All true things, insofar as they are true, are unified by this truth - even if this is transubstantiation and Apollonius and muon decay rates.
2) To quote: "God is a mathematician". Laws (of nature and otherwise) have more of the force of unbreakability the more they approach mathematic exactitude. This is true of nature and human positive law.
3) Tradition isn't better because its older, nor is novelty better because of newness. The historical and culture advances in human understanding have to maintain what is true always. All ideas - both old and new - should be scrutinized for their truth and not accepted on mere authority nor because of new technical jargon (this applies to all disciplines).
[aside - it is pretty bad when the spell check tries to replace (the possibly misspelled) 'transubstantiation' with 'transvestite'.]
Number 3 is the one of the most important and least practiced in our circles. We have all fell prey to it.
I cannot help but want to underscore this.
Argued by
Andrew Simone |
2:17 PM
True, that, on both counts. "St. Thomas is the best!" not because of the merits of his arguments, but because of his tradition. Hermaneutics as opposed to interpretation - technical jargon without any merit prima facia.
Theology - the Bible was written by an author whose understanding is infinite - newness can come from re-interpretation (as long as it is true).
Mathematics - Euclid and his Geometry is great, but modern mathematics has elegant theorems nonetheless - but don't throw out Euclid.
Physics - Aristotle may be limited but still says true things that explain nature - but don't deny quantum mechanics nor relativity.
the list goes on. . .
Argued by
beitiathustra |
8:15 PM