Category: Jaspers
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The Riddle of Evil and the Pyrrhonian ‘Don’t Care’
Substack latest on the aporetics of evil. Today I preach upon a text from Karl Jaspers wherein he comments on St. Augustine (Plato and Augustine, ed. Arendt, tr. Mannheim, Harcourt 1962, p. 110): In interminable discussions, men have tried to sharpen and clarify this contradiction: on the one hand, evil is a mere clouding of…
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Combat Veterans
They descended into hell and some rose again from the dead. Who am I to ask them any questions? Do I have the right? Craig was a housemate of mine in undergraduate days. When he was 18 he ran away from a troubled home and joined the Marine Corps. He ended up in Vietnam. One…
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The Riddle of Evil and the Pyrrhonian ‘Don’t Care’
Today I preach upon a text from Karl Jaspers wherein he comments on St. Augustine (Plato and Augustine, ed. Arendt, tr. Mannheim, Harcourt 1962, p. 110): In interminable discussions, men have tried to sharpen and clarify this contradiction: on the one hand, evil is a mere clouding of the good, a shadow, a deficiency; on…