Manichaeism
When you first start reading St. Augustine, you quickly find out that he was once a believer in Manichaeism. So what was Manichaeism?
"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
When you first start reading St. Augustine, you quickly find out that he was once a believer in Manichaeism. So what was Manichaeism?
It is easy.. to understand why protest becomes a distinctive moral feature of the modern age and why indignation is a predominant modern emotion… The self-assertive shrillness of protest arises because the facts of incommensurability ensure that protestors can never win an argument; the indignant self-righteousness of protest arises because the facts of incommensurability ensure equally that the protestors can never lose an argument either. Hence the utterance of protest is characteristically addressed to those who already share the protestors’ premises. The effects of incommensurability ensure that protestors rarely have anyone else to talk to but themselves. This is not to say that protest cannot be effective; it is to say that it cannot be rationally effective and that its dominant modes of expression give evidence of a certain perhaps unconscious awareness of this
Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
David was invited onto The Counsel of Trent podcast to talk about “The Argument From Reason”, which is an argument against Naturalism which Lewis presents in Chapter 3 of his book, Miracles.
S4E75: “The Argument From Reason” with Trent Horn (Download)
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