Theodor Haecker<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>, Journal in the Night<\/strong> (Pantheon, 1950, tr. Dru), #691:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Spiritual blindness differs from physical blindness in this, that it is not conscious. That is the essence of error invincibilis<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Compare <\/span><\/span>Blaise Pascal, Pensees<\/strong> #98 (Krailsheimer tr., p. 55):<\/span><\/p>\n How is it that a lame man does not annoy us while a lame mind does? Because a lame man recognizes that we are walking straight, while a lame mind says that it is we who are limping.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Please forgive the following reformulation. Point out to a man that he is crippled, and he won't contradict you, though he might take umbrage at your churlishness. But point out to a man that his thinking is crippled and he is sure to reply, "No! It is your<\/em> thinking that is crippled."<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Theodor Haecker, Journal in the Night (Pantheon, 1950, tr. Dru), #691: Spiritual blindness differs from physical blindness in this, that it is not conscious. That is the essence of error invincibilis. Compare Blaise Pascal, Pensees #98 (Krailsheimer tr., p. 55): How is it that a lame man does not annoy us while a lame mind does? … Continue reading “Error Invincibilis<\/i>“<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[587,182,287],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-error","category-haecker-theodor","category-pascal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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