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“The dwelling place of God is with men, and the dwelling place of the soul is in the body. You are not on your way to some communion with the eternal or the infinite: the infinite is already here, expressed in the medium of your flesh and blood and the hard, solid world you can see and touch. The world of the spirit is our world, the world of humanity. Live in it: you might even like it.”
― How to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises
― How to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises
“Heidegger (who eventually joined the Nazi party himself), called this “the unconditional dominion of subjectivity.”19 Without God—without some shared, stable, objective basis for understanding what is true, moral, and real—we are left only with competing demands for power and competing attempts to control the facts.”
― How to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises
― How to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises
“The four principal ways of being excellent at being human are traditionally called the “cardinal” virtues: wisdom (sophia), self-restraint (sōphrosunē), courage (andreia), and justice (dikē).”
― How to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises
― How to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises
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