To the Logician, life is an ongoing inquiry into the mysteries of the universe. Continue reading
The lover becomes the thing he loves
But this pure, fair demigoddess,
who with my soul is in accord
exists in my mind as a mere idea Continue reading
Moral Imagination
The life of the image is to be drawn from within. The life of the image is to be none other than the life of imagination. And it is of the very nature of imagination that it cannot be inculcated. Continue reading
Eating on La Vigilia
How to make your Christmas Eve memorable. Continue reading
Lady of Shalott
She has a lovely face; God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalott. Continue reading
What’s the Matter
Everything that we know about the world necessarily begins with our sense experience of it. We touch, see, hear, smell, and taste things. We notice that things move, develop, change direction. One of these things is our own body. We can experience our body as a thing in the world. Continue reading
Principial Origin and Final Destiny
The final, and most difficult constraint to overcome, is ignorance. As a rational animal, there is ultimately one choice, the most important choice: the choice between good and evil. Since freedom is to act in accordance to one’s true nature as rational, only choosing the “good” is a free choice. Continue reading
Humans may be Everywhere
All is vanity. What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun? A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. Continue reading
Doctor Zhivago Unveiled
Lara has to be the love of his life, with no other. Hence, he catches one final glimpse of her. We may hope that Lara is his Beatrice, the revelation of Sophia, assuming that his life and poetry had made him wise. Continue reading
Eternal Life is Seeing God
Just as eternal life is seeing God,
longing for nothing greater, no longer longing,
so I’m made happy, my lady, by seeing you
in this brief and fragile life of mine. Continue reading