Quotes I found thought provoking “Every fear is an unconfronted weakness.” – Kurt Saxon in the essay “Survival and the Paranoid” 1977 “Intellectual understanding in the strict sense is found at the highest pinnacle of human selfhood, what the philosophers call the “actual intellect.” When such understanding leaves the realm of pure intelligence and descends […]
Month: December 2009
To relax in strength
Tension generated as the coil is pressed down. It quivers and is sprung. Released in a direction it exerts force. The coiled spring, the tensed muscle, the panther on its haunches waiting to leap. With the tension unleashed, the energy is transferred. The spring is sprung. The fist, it flies forth. The cat leaps through […]
Wisdom, intellect, and authority: Aqli vs. Naqli knowledge
What is knowledge, and how do we know? How do we come to know what we know. Each civilization has arrived to conclusions on these matters, some give weight to certain answers over others. To understand the intellectual atmosphere in the world of Classical Old Islam you should understand a basic distinction between two modes […]
Quote of the day, Friday 4, Dec. 2009
“…In utilitarian societies, where what most people consider to be good for themselves is the rule of law, there are two vectors of control: institutions and economies. Both reward producing results that people want to consume in exchange for money, and now that we’ve got many different groups with enough people in them to be […]