The previous post is here. Book 1 Chapter 4 That the truth about divine things which is attainable by reason is fittingly proposed to man as an object of belief. There are kinds of truth about God. Those reason can show and those which surpass human reason. If the first was the only truth about …
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The world is changing so rapidly that our personal experience is being rendered obsolete long before we reach “retirement age.” About 8 or so years ago, when I was in the regular business world, I gave a speech at The University of Tulsa School of Business about “knowledge management.” At that time the half-life of …
The previous post in the series is here. Chapter 1. In what the office of a wise man consists The wise man according to the Philosopher is one who orders things rightly. The wise man may perhaps be skilled in the architectonic, the principal arts which govern other arts. The druggist is knowledgeable in matters …
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I intend to read Summa Contra Gentiles by Aquinas (SCG) in installments over the next 24 or so months. Periodically, I will attempt to summarize my readings here. I am doing this not to provide you, the reader, with “cliff notes,” but as an aid to my own reading and learning. I hope they are …
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Sir John took the trouble to give us a summary of his paper, The Fate of Empires, which you should read. As numerous points of interest have arisen in the course of this essay, I close with a brief summary, to refresh the reader’s mind. (a) We do not learn from history because our studies …
We have about 4,000 years or so of written history that we can study in order to identify patterns that occur over and over again in the rise and fall of great nations. An objective study of history tells us much about the lives of nations. Sir John Glubb shows us the patterns he identified …
Many years ago I ran into an old school friend. She’s a smart chick and my wife and I always enjoyed her company, so I invited her and her husband, who I had not met, to a poker game at my home. She brought her husband. In this poker game there were some real engineers, …
The woke is just more Calvinism. I’ve been saying for quite some time that the woke assumption is that certain folks (generally white people) are characterized by totally depravity and irredeemable. The woke hold the soul/body dichotomy (tranz, gheys) and as such revile the body. “Body positivity” is in fact reviling the body. They have …
Hardcore liberals became disaffected by what they saw as the failures of the 1960’s. Under the influence of Marcuse and others they then undertook a 50 year march through every significant institution in the country. The government, universities, Hollywood, radio, newspapers, TV, Silicon Valley, the Fortune 500, everything. They won while the conservatives tried to be …
I’ve known that online advertising was a scam for years now. I haven’t bought any online advertising for OnlineGreatBooks.com in close to a year. I’m sad to say I was slow to act on what I believed to be true. Our membership enrollments continue to grow slowly and organically since we stopped buying ads, confirming …