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Friendship as Sacred Knowing: Overcoming Isolation
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“ours is an age of lonely-mindedness. We are haunted, I suggest, by a
certain habit of isolation buried, often imperceptibly, within our practices
of understanding and relating to the world.”
― Friendship as Sacred Knowing: Overcoming Isolation
certain habit of isolation buried, often imperceptibly, within our practices
of understanding and relating to the world.”
― Friendship as Sacred Knowing: Overcoming Isolation
“To Taylor,
one of the most striking features of our age in comparison with all others
is the worry about “a loss of meaning.” Indeed, “this malaise is specific to
a buffered identity, whose very invulnerability opens it to the danger that
not just evil sprits, cosmic forces or gods won’t ‘get to’ it, but that nothing
significant will stand out for it” (303).”
― Friendship as Sacred Knowing: Overcoming Isolation
one of the most striking features of our age in comparison with all others
is the worry about “a loss of meaning.” Indeed, “this malaise is specific to
a buffered identity, whose very invulnerability opens it to the danger that
not just evil sprits, cosmic forces or gods won’t ‘get to’ it, but that nothing
significant will stand out for it” (303).”
― Friendship as Sacred Knowing: Overcoming Isolation
“On Taylor’s account, then, Descartes opts for a new practice of enquiry,
fighting vigourously (1) to establish a new radical interiority utterly severed from external involvement; (2) to objectivise the body; (3) to instrumentalise and disenchant materiality more generally; and (4) to redefine
rationality, rejecting the goal of encountering the highest principles of
order, choosing instead to consider as rational only those (fully internal)
representations which have been constructed according to proper canons
of procedural rationality.
It”
― Friendship as Sacred Knowing: Overcoming Isolation
fighting vigourously (1) to establish a new radical interiority utterly severed from external involvement; (2) to objectivise the body; (3) to instrumentalise and disenchant materiality more generally; and (4) to redefine
rationality, rejecting the goal of encountering the highest principles of
order, choosing instead to consider as rational only those (fully internal)
representations which have been constructed according to proper canons
of procedural rationality.
It”
― Friendship as Sacred Knowing: Overcoming Isolation
“Intimacy is, in a quite straightforward ontogenetic sense, essential to
human life. Without communal care, human beings simply cannot
emerge into the world. Nor is this simply a point about physical sustenance, but indeed about human identity as well. As”
― Friendship as Sacred Knowing: Overcoming Isolation
human life. Without communal care, human beings simply cannot
emerge into the world. Nor is this simply a point about physical sustenance, but indeed about human identity as well. As”
― Friendship as Sacred Knowing: Overcoming Isolation
“there is much to affirm in Taylor’s argument that the pivotal
shifts in metaphysical vision that took place in the late medieval and early
modern periods had less to do with straightforward rational advancement
(as is often assumed by the standard “narratives of progress”) and more
to do with an alteration in “stance” (Taylor’s term) to reality. Enquiry”
― Friendship as Sacred Knowing: Overcoming Isolation
shifts in metaphysical vision that took place in the late medieval and early
modern periods had less to do with straightforward rational advancement
(as is often assumed by the standard “narratives of progress”) and more
to do with an alteration in “stance” (Taylor’s term) to reality. Enquiry”
― Friendship as Sacred Knowing: Overcoming Isolation
