We shiver in the chill of a new advice age. People want to know how to live and how to get what they want. They spend their dwindling money and attention on filling their helium balloon heads with other airy substances. A rolling gas cloud of questions, searches, of how to’s. Rules, lists, guidelines, plans, programs and systems. Coaches and trainers and consultants and counselors. Society seems so disorderly for lack of overriding principles but on the ground floor rules run amok. The chaos of everyday life is in part an effect of all the orders in miniature, the segmented and private systems at odds with each other.
I'm somewhat familiar with Marcel, and have read Ellul's The Technological Society. I've been meaning to get around to Maritain for a while.
To the extent that I can understand myself, I think I have something of a dual loyalty, or two primary competing views of human life. One is based on a transhistorical individual soul given to each of us, something of possibly divine origin, with certain aims and interests that must be protected and fleshed out. And then there's the contingent, materialist side of life, where we are animals in thrall to environmental and technological influences that demand thoroughgoing analysis.
Personalism is another interesting philosophy of life, Caleb.
You know? That french milieu of G. Marcel, J. Maritain, E. Mounier, P. Maurin, even Ellul, in its first years. And many others, of course. I recommend.
I'm somewhat familiar with Marcel, and have read Ellul's The Technological Society. I've been meaning to get around to Maritain for a while.
To the extent that I can understand myself, I think I have something of a dual loyalty, or two primary competing views of human life. One is based on a transhistorical individual soul given to each of us, something of possibly divine origin, with certain aims and interests that must be protected and fleshed out. And then there's the contingent, materialist side of life, where we are animals in thrall to environmental and technological influences that demand thoroughgoing analysis.
Personalism is another interesting philosophy of life, Caleb.
You know? That french milieu of G. Marcel, J. Maritain, E. Mounier, P. Maurin, even Ellul, in its first years. And many others, of course. I recommend.