tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472139466585018053.post7484883356806681974..comments2024-03-11T04:11:06.487-04:00Comments on The Smithy: A Fantasia on Philosophical Myth in Tarantino and TolkienLee Faberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00476833516234522602noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472139466585018053.post-36793524595334294552016-08-01T08:59:45.408-04:002016-08-01T08:59:45.408-04:00Hello,
Unrelated to this post in particular but a ...Hello,<br />Unrelated to this post in particular but a popular podcast series: The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, is beginning to move on towards covering Duns Scotus (starting with an interview with Richard Cross): http://historyofphilosophy.net/trinity-cross<br /><br />There are also a few other episodes on Henry of Ghent, Bonaventure, Thomas of Aquinas, etc.<br /><br />Cheers,<br />Steven ReyesAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10325571759039887457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472139466585018053.post-53696609585222889942016-07-02T11:52:27.035-04:002016-07-02T11:52:27.035-04:00Dear Michael,
This is a meditation rich and fasc...Dear Michael,<br /> This is a meditation rich and fascinating in metaphysical and iconic terms.<br />First, it recalls, "Our Lady Undoer of Knots”:<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Untier_of_Knots<br />Knots in this sense are evil or unfortunate; they are obstacles to be undone. Like sins, which Jesus empowered his apostles to loose or leave bound. <br />But there is much more to be said. Knots are what make the world complex and interesting. Here we have the Latin language connected with metaphors that describe our experience as CLOTH. Think about the “implications” of a sentence or the unfolding of a plot.<br />But knots and links also join together entities whose courses through life are non-intersecting. All lives are linked even if they never touch each other, because we all have the same Source. This is termed “entanglement” in quantum physics. How diverse; how elaborate can the entanglement be<br />Perhaps the most basic icon here is the Borromean Rings, which are an established metaphor for the Holy Trinity. No two rings are linked, but all three rings are linked and cannot be separated.<br />A knot records change; stores complications. The structure of a knot is stored in its set of crossings; loci at which one strand passes behind another so that both cannot be seen simultaneously. One may rotate the knot and seem to alter this structure, but the pattern of crossings is invariant; it is the essential nature of the knot. <br />Classical Greek metaphysics pictures an entity as a sphere; concentrated, centered, atomic; as energy drawn into and held within a determinate for; like a held breath. But a parallel ontology pictures an entity as a knot, as an invariant form through which an energy not its own endlessly flows through and its gone. <br />The former shows us an entity as a rock in the stream, a momentary blocking or suspension of the flow, like the holding of a breath. But the latter shows us entities as the windings and tumblings of the stream itself. <br />Indeed, what is the knot composed of but Life itself, seen as a flowing or streaming of energy, conceived generically not as a set of parallel flow lines, but as a vortex; spinning and winding as it flows. The central spinning core; tightly conserving its selfhood; the more disperse windings linking it with all other flows, directly or indirectly. The basic icon of the physical entity as a knot is the theory, due to J.C. Maxwell and Michael Faraday, of the Vortex Atom. The flow cannot be stopped or restrained for long; and it cannot be broken. But in its basic integrity and its dealings with others, the knot is immortal-<br /><br />Jim Given<br /><br />Jim Givenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04234101590371979889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472139466585018053.post-65030641466400490832016-06-02T23:04:43.133-04:002016-06-02T23:04:43.133-04:00This is amazing! What a joy to read. Thank you. ...This is amazing! What a joy to read. Thank you. TPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811428659795016661noreply@blogger.com