That Explains a Lot
According to Donald T. Williams, Flannery O'Connor described her generation as one "that has been made to feel that the aim of learning is to eliminate mystery."
posted by A. Steinberg @ 11:13 AM
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Does this come down to a reduction of all Truth into empirical truth? If it does mean this, I have a great little quote on the subject:
"Christ is the truth. . . . Truth is more than conceptual truth, for truth in the last analysis is personal."
-Rookmaaker, Modern Art and the Death of a Culture
Hi, Empress.
I think many people want truth at least expressible, if not empirical.
I don't mind the proliferation of words and definition in general (could you guess??). But some truth isn't expressible, and the urge to define and control has to be checked somewhere. Because definition and control are really closely linked. I'm thinking in particular of sacraments and the healthy reluctance (in the historic church, and now in the Eastern and English Churches) to define everything, as if there's a one-to-one relation between this action and this result.
Good quote. Were you looking for a place to use it? Must be your rhetoric teachers' influences upon you! :)
Thanks for visiting my blog and leaving comments. (I have looked at some of both yours)
So interesting that you sang at Greensted Church. (I have a couple of friends who actually worship there)
It is a special place and it is on the itinerary for everyone who comes and visits us.
What a fascinating quote! I've been tracking my home city's struggles with their public schools for a while now, and someone recently commented that the aim for schooling has subconsciously changed: it used to be we taught the kids to make them complete people, well rounded adults ready for any path in life. Now it seems, at least in my neck of the woods, we teach them so they may graduate, so they may get a job, so they may make money, so they may be happy. Thoughts?
We've found at St. Andrew's that this mindset (education = good job) makes it very hard to attract people to a good private education.
I mean, try telling people, "It will cost more, it will be more work, and it won't necessarily make your student successful or rich"-- they kind of lose interest!
But wait, it will help him be a good person.... okay, bye.
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