To save for later… A paraphrase of the argument by Albert Magnus in George Reilly’s The Psychology of Albert the Great: Compared with That of Saint Thomas (1934), 39. “The act of understanding is abstract and free from the conditions and limitations of matter. Now since the ‘intelligible’ has a twofold relation, one to the intellect, the other …
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An excerpt from “An Essay on Man: Epistle II” by Alexander Pope (as printed in Comment magazine) Know, then, thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, …
“What does a man do when he finds himself living after an age has ended and he can no longer understand himself because the theories of man of the former age no longer work and the theories of the new age are not yet known, for even the name of the new age is not …
