Forwarded from The Classical Wisdom Tradition
It's hard for modern Western people to get this because they think thoughts are just things floating around mysteriously in their brains, unconnected with external reality. On this view, if we're lucky, the thoughts floating in our brains will sort of match external reality somehow, but who knows.
But that is not how the classical tradition understood it at all. Rather, they had a view that I think can be reasonably summarized as follows: when we truly know something, we are in communion with immaterial reality, and these immaterial realities are (basically) the causal principles of everything in the universe. It's not just a thing in your brain.
On this traditional model, then, careful thinking is - literally - purification. It's a kind of religious rite. That's why they cared about thinking so much, why they cared about logic so much. You are purifying your mind of what blocks it from the eternal.
- CWT Admin
But that is not how the classical tradition understood it at all. Rather, they had a view that I think can be reasonably summarized as follows: when we truly know something, we are in communion with immaterial reality, and these immaterial realities are (basically) the causal principles of everything in the universe. It's not just a thing in your brain.
On this traditional model, then, careful thinking is - literally - purification. It's a kind of religious rite. That's why they cared about thinking so much, why they cared about logic so much. You are purifying your mind of what blocks it from the eternal.
- CWT Admin
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Forwarded from 🔮Wizards of the Cave🔮 (『Extreme Ultimate Sfaccimm』)
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