This assumes some such reality as the Zoroastrian daena sub
specie aeternitatis.
sometimes it is necessary to make a new word to express an idea (see also: Thought for Food)
Thursday, June 28, 2012
sic permanet gloria mundi?
The myth of Er suggests that we did choose our parents, and
the idea that all that we do on earth -- also suggested in the lines toward the
end of Goethe's Faust "Es kann die Spur von meinen Erdetagen/Nicht in
Äonen untergehn" (lines 11583-4) -- might be permanent, if not in
"this world", could be termed in contrast to sic transit gloria
mundi: sic permanet gloria mundi.
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Justice in God, Man, Nature, Cosmos?
theodicy
anthropodicy
physiodicy
cosmodicy
Read from theologian J. Matthew Ashley: "In classical terms, this is to broach the
problem of theodicy: how to think about God in the face of the presence of
suffering in God's creation. After God's dethronement as the subject of
history, the question rebounds to the new subject of history: the human being.
As a consequence, theodicy becomes anthropodicy — justifications of our faith
in humanity as the subject of history, in the face of the suffering that is so
inextricably woven into the history that humanity makes. Mutatis mutandis, the
universe story brings with it the need for a "cosmodicy." How do we
think about the presence of suffering, on a massive scale, in the story of the
cosmos, particularly when the cosmos itself is understood to be the subject of
history? How do we justify our faith in the cosmos?
-- J. Matthew Ashley, "Reading the universe story
theologically: the contribution of a biblical narrative imagination",
Theological Studies, 2010, vol. 71, no. 4, pp. 870-902
Labels:
anthropodicy,
biodicy,
cosmodicy,
philodicy,
physiodicy,
theodicy
Location:
Moscow, Russia
Monday, June 4, 2012
sic transit gloria cogitatis
sic transit gloria cogitatis would mean ~thus pass all the glories of human thinking.
sic transit gloria concepti would mean ~thus pass all the glories of human concept, ideas.
Friday, May 18, 2012
sub specie mundi, -scientiae, -academiae
There is the well-known sub specie aeternitatis which
roughly means "from the perspective of the eternal".
But we actually live in mentalities, cultures, societies,...which think of life more:
sub specie mundi ~from the perspective of the earthly life (eg mundane)
sub specie scientiae ~from the perspective of science
sub specie academiae ~from the perspective of the academy
Thursday, May 17, 2012
homo sapiens sapiens?
more like homo insapiens
or
homo somnians man the dreamer
or
homo intempestivus unreasonable man (seems this is more correct in Latin than insapiens)
or
homo somnians man the dreamer
or
homo intempestivus unreasonable man (seems this is more correct in Latin than insapiens)
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Disoccidentation, Disoccidented
It seems that disoccidentation and disoccidented are words that could be used to describe eg the loss of faith in the West. It seems they are little used at all, but might be interestingly if capably employed.
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