So you are a follower of Maritain? WC
--- On Fri, 1/16/09, Michael Brady <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Michael Brady <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Work creates the taste > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, January 16, 2009, 2:18 PM > William: > > > All that Catholic learning is responsible for your > habit to explain > > the mysterious as if it were causal -- or something > like what you > > said. In other words, what you say might be true, > true enough to > > reveal its falsity. > > From causality to casuistry? Nah. I'm using a razor > here, trying to > scrape away all that can be properly explained by causal > arguments. > Then we're left with marvels. We go from causality to > splendor! <g> > > I think that the intricacies of the natural world are > marvels that are > almost inexhaustible, and that emanence of the marvelous > suffuses > every experience. I think the rather common reaction of > going from > seemingly inexplicable event--such as how blood clots or > how a few > lines on a white square can "become" some > representation--to asserting > the presence of some "mysterious" operation or > force is a shortcut > around the true marvel of knowing how it happens. > > Everything is marvelous. > > How is it that I can look at a photograph taken in the 30s > or 50s and > recognize my parents or my one-year-old brother? How does > our brains > work to cause that? It may be subconscious, in the sense > that such a > think happens outside of our conscious awareness, but that > doesn't > mean it's invisible or unknowable. > > I marvel at number. The unity of one. The duality of two. > And then > there is three, and what comes after them. > > I marvel at the cleverness of the clinical studies that > reveal or > discern behavioral mechanisms. > > I marvel at the odd coincidence that the electromagnetic > spectrum goes > in a "linear" progression of wavelengths from > infrared to ultraviolet, > which is the exact progress of the color wheel **and it > circles back > on itself**!! I find that to be such a perplexing > recurrence, kind of > like a rising canon in music. > > And language. And words. The nature or quality of > individual > preferences. On and on. > > > | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | > Michael Brady > [email protected]
