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Un vers d’avant la révélation monothéiste. Celle-ci renversera l’équation et juchera l’homme au pinacle du temple du vivant. Mais, dans la lumière antique, l’homme reste une paille ! Cette idée de l’inconsistance de nous-mêmes a traversé la philosophie. Des penseurs se sont relayés pour formuler l’idée de notre vacuité. Héraclite le premier avec sa
... See moreSylvain Tesson • Un été avec Homère (French Edition)
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, 2nd Edition (Annotated)) (Hackett Classics)
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Nicolas Truong • In Praise of Love
this way of talking about God in negatives is called ‘apophatic’ theology, from the Greek for deny or negate. We can never say what God is, only what God is not – and that includes anything we try to say about the divine mystery.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
John’s greatest work was called (in Greek) On the Division of Nature. This book was what, in scholastic times, would have been termed “realist”; that is to say, it maintained, with Plato, that universals are anterior to particulars. He includes in “Nature” not only what is, but also what is not. The whole of Nature is divided into four classes: (1)
... See moreBertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
Everything that exists exists because of God and exists, as far as we know, as part of the universe. Yet God is not the universe or anything in the universe.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
Lombard’s eagerness to distance himself from the language of the humanity as a homo assumptus, a complete individual entering into union with the Word, leads him to a theory that risks evacuating the humanity of its coherence as a genuine item in the created world.