In the face of truth everything is mere opinion. To face the truth is to face away from opinions, and above all to face away from opinions about truth. What stands between man and truth is the baggage of his convictions. In the path toward the source our ideas and symbols are only to play … More Truth and Tradition
Supreme science is the science of the first and the highest principles. It is known as metaphysics in the strictest sense of the word and not metaphysics as wrongly associated with the supernatural. The principal subject of metaphysics, according to Aristotle, is Being qua Being, Being as such. Thus, metaphysics is an a priori science, … More Metaphysics: The Supreme Science
Consciousness gives and hides at once; it exhibits the world, but exhibits the world as transcendent, always beyond our full reach. It makes most of the world hidden from intuition and yet laments over what it gives and brags about what it takes. Consciousness doesn’t just exhibit the world; it exhibits objectivity. It is not … More World As The Ecstasy of Consciousness
How we perceive the world tells something about us and not the world. World is essentially nothing other that the outward reflection of inward perception as I am myself nothing other than the inward reflection of outward perception. To overcome the infinite regress implied by the apparent bipolarity of experience we can only posit a … More Existence as Misunderstanding
Man is addicted to the world. Modernism was the last enabler. Postmodernism is the leading cause of man’s overdose on world. Postmodernism is man’s rock bottom; it is the lowest we could ever go; it is the ultimate demise of the intellect whose worst symptom is the now fashionable atheism. Postmodernism is where man would do … More Addiction to the World
Being. Nothing more can be said. One cannot conceptualize or reduce being into something else, for then one must first presume the Being of that to which Being is reduced or conceptualized. Being cannot be defined, for there is nothing more fundamental than Being in terms of which Being can be defined. In defining something … More Being and Nothing Else
Creative Misunderstandings of Existentialism Jean-Paul Sartre was not a trained philosopher but a brilliant writer; he created philosophical literature but never a rigorous philosophy. He actually never studied philosophy academically, but he was under the influence of the phenomenological movement and its methods. Sartre’s existentialism is a misunderstanding of phenomenology and its tenets, for phenomenology … More Man and Existence
