Category: Concupiscence
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Two Types of Humanity: The Mystic and the Profligate
Julian Green, Diary 1928-1957, entry of 30 December 1940, p. 104: Does our body never weary of desiring the same things? [. . .] There are only two types of humanity . . . the mystic and the profligate, because both fly to extremes , searching, each is his own way, for the absolute; but,…
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Trump’s Dobbs Strategy
I'd say it's the right one. You are free to differ. Related: Abortion and the Wages of Concupiscence Unrestrained and Slavery, Abortion, and 'Skin in the Game'
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Fortuna, Boethius, Philosophia
The Devil Woman lures Boethius a posteriori onto the wheel of fortune while the Eternal Feminine leads him upward a priori. Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan! (Goethe, Faust)
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Of Fox and Fellatio: A Fox News First?
This is the first time I have heard fellatio referred to on a major TV network. The sweet and wholesome Kayleigh McEnany reports. The fellatio reference is around 2:34. Joey B, "devout Catholic" in journo lingo, stars as Porn Enforcer and takes a brave stand against book burning. UPDATE (6/23) Do you remember when our…
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Neither Angel nor Beast
I read the Sufi mystic Rūmī (1207-1273) when I lived in Turkey, 1995-1996. The following observation from my Turkish journal is surrounded by quotations from him so he may have been the source of the idea. Angels were created with reason, brutes with lust, man with both. A man who follows reason is higher than…
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Abortion and the Wages of Concupiscence Unrestrained
Why do the arguments against abortion have such little effect? Substack latest. See also Anthony G. Flood, Abortion, euphemism, and moral evasion.
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Kadın erkeğin şeytanıdır
"Woman is man's devil." (Turkish proverb) Never underestimate the power of concupiscence to derange, disorient, and delude. When Spanish bishop Xavier Novell resigned last month, the Roman Catholic Church cited strictly personal reasons without going into detail. It has now emerged in Spanish media that he fell in love with a woman who writes Satanic-tinged…
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On the Role of Concupiscence in the Decline of the Catholic Church
Substack latest.
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The Lust of the Eyes and the Pride of Life
This just over the transom from T. O. with my responses: I am wondering if you'd like to tackle this question prompted by your latest post on the sensus divinitatis. Suppose a man indulges his sensual desires and passions (especially sexual passion) without restraint when he is young. Then, as he ages, he realizes…
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A Need of the Flesh?
According to Vanity Fair, Jeffrey Epstein needed three orgasms per day by three different girls. That need would be ill-described as a need of the flesh. It would be better described as an artificially induced 'need' of a degraded spirit who freely attempted to extinguish his spirit in the diaspora of sensuousness. With apologies to…
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The Fall of John Searle
By now you will have heard that the distinguished philosopher, John R. Searle, has been stripped of his emeritus status at the University of California, Berkeley. He was found to have violated sexual harrassment policies. A long-time reader of this blog astutely observes that things went worse for Peter Abelard, and then adds: Also, behaviour…
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Abortion and the Wages of Concupiscence Unrestrained
Why do the powerful arguments against abortion have such little effect? The 'pro-choice' movement, to use the polite euphemism, is fueled by concupiscence. Not entirely, of course. To what extent, then? One naturally wants the pleasures of sexual intercourse without any consequences. One seeks cost-free indulgence in the most intense sensuous pleasure known to man.…