Ontotheology was made up by Heidegger in order to sell beyng

I put together some notes on this, incomplete, but at least perhaps useful as a starting point athomist.com/articles/to-sup…

NEW: a report from Vanderbilt and WashU just dropped, taking on the "state of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences," a big topic among critics of higher ed. Read along w/ me 🧵

Franziska van Buren, Zachary Hayes, Colman Majchrzak, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Etienne Gilson, Christopher Cullen, Emma Janes Sprago, Jan Aertsen, even Alan Wolter finds at best the list of disjunctives and not univocity as such.

I’m not even joking when I say this may be one of the most important books to read to understand AI-induced psychosis

'A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. The library is the university.' Shelby Foote

Nothing prepares you for how delightfully strange the Mabinogion is. There is a woman made of flowers, a cauldron that can revive the dead, a giant claw that steals horses, an underworld of feasts & hunting. Anyone with an interest in the roots of fantasy fiction must read it.

On 13 May 1625 one Irish Franciscan member of a Spanish province did the extremely rare & delicate thing of defending theses from Scotus & Aquinas simultaneously. Presiding was a member of the Roman Inquisition. No pressure.

"Univocity of being" is actually a nothing burger for the modernity geneology 'tapeworm theory of history' (Spengler pbuh) given that its merely univocal in reason. You'd be better off going in at his reversal of intelligible and sensible for cognitive acts and their object.

THIS GUY BUILT AN ENTIRE WIKIPEDIA THAT IS 100% AI HALLUCINATIONS AND IT'S OPEN SOURCE ON GITHUB it's called Halupedia. nothing on the site existed before you clicked. every article was generated the second you arrived. the site has one rule: the universe only exists when you visit it. it looks exactly like wikipedia. same fonts. same layout. same scholarly citations. same "stumble" button for random articles. the only difference is none of it is real. here are some actual articles currently in the encyclopedia: > the great pigeon census of 1887 > the ministry of slightly wrong maps > chaldic arithmetic — a branch of mathematics where subtraction is forbidden > armund the river mapper — a cartographer who mapped 14,000 leagues of river without leaving his chair > the society for the prevention of unnecessary tuesdays every article page also tells you how many people are reading it right now. it says: "you alone are consulting this folio at present." the creator's own tagline for the site is the most unhinged sentence i've read this year: "an encyclopedia of a universe that does not exist until you visit it" the entire backend is a single open source repo called vibeserver. one guy. one description on github: "a little webserver making things up just in time." we built the largest knowledge base in human history and the very first thing a guy did with it was make a hallucinated mirror universe and put it on the open web. the internet is healing.

I’ll tell my grandchildren this is the cursive handwriting we used to learn in school.

I will not assimilate St. Bonaventure into Thomism or Scotism nor the reverse as has historically been the lamentable state of self-described expositors of the Seraphic theology and philosophy. One may examine this topic from Fr. Colman J. Majchrzak's volume.

What would you do if Scotism completely overtook the church

fun fact nobody born past 1995 can read this it’s basically cryptography to them

"For the valour of the Edain the Elves shall ever remember as the ages lengthen, marveling that they gave life so freely of which they had on earth so little." - J.R.R. Tolkien

An older essay of mine, but I think it has held up over time. James of Ascoli vs. William of Alnwick link.growkudos.com/1eujtwmjt…

My newest essay is out, on the formal distinction and the debate about it at Paris during Scotus' lifetime: link.growkudos.com/1f39hq2cb…

JRR Tolkien’s letter from Aragorn, King of Gondor to Sam Gamgee, Mayor of the Shire, written in the Elvish script, Tengwar. This was created as part of an epilogue to The Lord of the Rings which was never published. It makes me wonder how much lore of his world he kept to himself, never to see the light of day

The earth is just spinning through infinite darkness at 67,000 miles per hour and somehow it also made blueberries?? And laughing?? And the feeling of sun on your face?? What is this place. What a an absolute gift.

NB: In this sense it appears that the entire debate concerning the "Essence/Energies" debate as one of Essence and all else predicated of God is badly framed. The Divine ἐνέργεια is said by way of rationes causales. That is, we come to first speak of ἐνέργεια teleologically.