Friday, December 31, 2021

Concilium fall 2021 M. Handy, American revolution, p. 452-453.

Concilium fall 2021 M. Handy, American revolution, p. 452-453.



MICHAEL HANBY

Noce's genius was to recognize that the root of the
political crisis in the West is not itself political but metaphysical
and religious.' At its core is the elevation of becoming over
Being-in a word, anti-Platonism. "Every revolutionary
of traditional values," he writes, "depends upon this
Initial negation."7 The primacy of becoming replaces the vertical transcendence of eternity with the horizontal transcendence of
futurity. The negation of transcendence eliminates the possibility of "intellectual intuition," an apprehension of being in its
enduring intelligibility, truth, and goodness.' Gone, then, is the ground of the '"religious dimension" presupposed in any genuine act of faith, whose absence sets in motion a historical course
from the atheism in which God is denied to the irreligion in
which the question of God can no longer be asked meaningfully. Gone also is any possibility of traditional theoria. Speculative
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5. CM, 140 (emphasis original).
6. CM, 228.
7. CM, 58.
8 Primacy of contemplation just means the superiority of the in
changeable. It just expresses the essential metaphysical principle
atholic tradition, which says that everything that is participates nece
ersal principles, which are the eternal and immutable essences contai
in the permanent actuality of the divine intellect" (AS, 241).
9. See CM, 198; AS, 230.
452

AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Contemplative thought is unintelligible, thoroughly
philosophy of praxis." Truth itself is ether measured
efficacy of the action--"the historical reality it is a
roduce"-or it is reduced to historical, sociological, on
chological conditions and functions, that is, to ideology.'
From the anti-Platonic vantage point, the world is "a
stem of forces, not of values."11 The primacy of force elevates
politics over ethics-indeed over everything--even as the nega-
tion of universal reason and human nature undermines the basic
condition of possibility for a genuinely political society: a world
of shared meanings and a common good. Herein lies the novelty
of the new totalitarianism according to Del Noce. It "is not that
of a political movement that aims at world domination" it is,
rather, a wholly negative phenomenon--anti-racist, anti-fascist,
etc."marked by a quest to bring about a disintegration of one
part of the world"' in the name of freedom.12 It is total war le-
gitimated by its perennial opposition to fascism, falsely defined
as whatever sins "'against the progressive direction of history.'1'3
Total revolution could only succeed by bringing the
whole of human nature within its purview, that is, in sexual rev-
lution.14 One of Del Noce's greatest insights is that"scie
and "eroticism" form a unity. They are but two sides of the same
ontological coin and are mutually efficacious in advancing total
revolution. Together, they annihilate all but the barest "biolo-
gistic" conception of human nature with its vital energies. "Na-
ture" is simply whatever can be observed, which means anything
is just as natural--or unnatural--as anything else. The family
must be dissolved; only then can the "meta-empirical order of
truth" finally be abolished.15 The fundamental realities of human
nature--man, woman, mother, father, child--must be perpetu-
ally redefined. History must be erased, since the past is oppres-
sive, by definition, and language, morality, and law must all be
10. CM, 61.
11. CM, 232.
12. CM, 87.
13. CM, 101.
14. See CM,
15. CM, 161


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Sunday, December 19, 2021

Umiltà

San France- sco di Sales ricordava: «Chi è veramente umile non pensa mai che gli si faccia torto».


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Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Risate che conosco

You are lucky if you have not heard this laugh. It is of a type rarely heard outside a penitentiary: a sort of wild, false, exaggerated impersonation of how a human being might laugh. Harris laughs like Mark Zuckerberg moves — as though he has studied these humanoids and is hoping to stay undercover until cyborg D-Day.


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Saturday, November 20, 2021

Comunità Saveriana in Giappone

"Ad esempio, a motivo delle turbolente vicende accadute durante gli anni Settanta nella regione del Giappone, la parola "comunità", e tutto l'universo di valori che evoca, è stata segnata e ha segnato non pochi saveriani, creando anche divisioni e timori. Infatti, in quel periodo, quasi una decina di membri hanno lasciato la missione o la congregazione, mentre la stessa direzione generale negli anni successivi non ha inviato missionari in Giappone. Questo è un dato storico, non un giudizio a posteriori.
Inviato in Giappone, mi sono ritrovato nella situazione in cui, da una parte, save- riani di quel periodo e di quello successivo hanno vissuto esperienze di scontri e divi- sioni le cui ferite sono rimaste per decenni, lasciando non pochi traumi "comunitari". Un paio di questi sono: il rifiuto sistematico di condivisione del proprio lavoro per non esporsi al giudizio, non chiedere né interessarsi delle attività dell'altro per non correre il rischio di essere accusato di controllarlo e così via. Dall'altra parte, dopo alcuni anni dalla ripresa degli invii, i nuovi missionari, con un bagaglio di esperienze comunitarie positive e costruttive, hanno portato e realizzato la pratica e l'invito alla condivisione. Tuttavia, pur non essendoci stati scontri o divisioni, si è fatta molta fatica a preparare un terreno accogliente e rilassato, spesso ci si è trovati davanti al muro del sospetto, del disinteresse o del distacco, con qualche strascico ancora nel presente." (Renato Filippini, in: iSaveriani, novembre 2021, p.21)


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Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Sinodi e capitoli

St. Gregory Nazianzen's attitude: "If I must speak the truth, I feel disposed to shun every conference of bishops; because I never saw a synod brought to a happy issue, nor remedying, but rather increasing, existing evils." (Ep. 55)


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信仰養成

Thursday, October 21, 2021

A Companion to Angels in Medieval Philosophy | Brill

https://brill.com/view/title/14219?language=en


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Dal divenire a Dio

"Conviene guardare a quel divenire che siamo noi stessi, perché il nostro divenire lo possiamo toccar meglio con mano; possiamo ritenere illusorio il divenire delle cose esterne a noi, ma non possiamo ritenere illusorio il nostro divenire, non fosse altro quel divenire che consiste nell'illuderci e nel diventar poi consapevoli dell'illusione. Io sono oggi come non ero ieri e sarò domani come non sono oggi. Quel che sono oggi non mi apparteneva ieri, e non mi appartiene ancora quel che sarò domani; se mi appartenesse, il domani, dico il mio domani, dipenderebbe da me; e invece non dipende da me: non so come sarà, non so neppure se sarà. Donde viene, dunque, questa nuova fase, questa nuova attuazione del mio essere ? Non dal nulla, perché il nulla non è, e quindi non può dare né far nulla. Per affermare che il nulla crei qualche cosa bisogna aver rinunciato al principio di contraddizione, e quando si è rinunciato a tale principio non si può più affermar nulla. Mi verrà dunque da qualche cosa, da un altro. Ma se questo altro fosse a sua volta in divenire, porterebbe in sé la medesima contraddizione da sanare, il medesimo problema da risolvere. Se debbo uscire da me, diveniente, per trovare la ragion d'essere del mio divenire, non posso fermarmi finché non abbia trovato una realtà che non porti più in sé una contraddizione da sanare, che non abbia bisogno di un altro per essere, ma sia autosufficiente e quindi, indivenibile."

Vanni Rovighi, Sofia. Elementi di filosofia volume 2, La Scuola, 1964, pag. 132


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Wednesday, October 13, 2021

天使

天使


「人間は、視力聴力握力だけを自分のもの全体とはみず、人間世界の空間を見たり触れたりできるもので、仕切られるとは思わず、あたかも信仰とよぶところの現実への接近の第二洋式を求め、しかもこの洋式において人間の世界観の決定的開示をみいだすのである。(…)それは見えないもの決して視野にあらわれないものは非現実ではなく、それどころか見えないものこそ、実はすべての現実を担い可能にするものほかならないということの選択を意味している。またそれは、この現実全体を可能にするものこそ、人間に真に人間らしい生存を保証し、人として人間らしい存在を可能にしてくれるものであるとする選択を意味している。」

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Monday, September 13, 2021

天使

天使


「人間は、視力聴力握力だけを自分のもの全体とはみず、人間世界の空間を見たり触れたりできるもので、仕切られるとは思わず、あたかも信仰とよぶところの現実への接近の第二洋式を求め、しかもこの洋式において人間の世界観の決定的開示をみいだすのである。(…)それは見えないもの決して視野にあらわれないものは非現実ではなく、それどころか見えないものこそ、実はすべての現実を担い可能にするものほかならないということの選択を意味している。またそれは、この現実全体を可能にするものこそ、人間に真に人間らしい生存を保証し、人として人間らしい存在を可能にしてくれるものであるとする選択を意味している。」

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Monday, September 06, 2021

Thomas Pink

The revolution in the official theology of baptism is twofold. Dialogic harmony is given priority over conversion – and the sacramental life of the Church is seen as signifying of salvation, rather than something on which salvation actually depends.
There is a common root – the assumption that diabolic dominion over humanity has already been removed even in advance of baptism, and without any need for the world's conversion. That assumption is what makes the modern Church's pursuit of harmony with the world without its conversion appear feasible, and even a goal to be prioritised over conversion itself.
But the goal of harmony without conversion is not feasible at all. What reveals this is what also provides strong evidence that the operation of grace really does significantly depend on worthy participation in the sacramental life of the Church. This evidence lies in the very visible failure of grace to heal nature without nature's conversion – a failure that lies at the heart of moral conflict between the Church and an unconverted world.
Central to magisterial teaching about baptism is the grim reality, so clearly taught dogmatically at Florence, that the unconverted world remains under the dominion of the devil. Consequently, as Christ himself clearly proclaimed, baptism is a source not of harmony with the unconverted world but of spiritual confrontation of it and spiritual conflict with it – a spiritual conflict that can be ended only by the world's conversion.
The crisis of Amoris Laetitia is not a theological crisis of the current pontificate alone, It is not isolated, and it has parallels elsewhere that had already arisen under previous


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