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De-Fragmenting Modernity: Reintegrating Knowledge with Wisdom, Belief with Truth, and Reality with Being
We live in a strangely fragmented lifeworld. On the one hand, abstract constructions of our own imagination--such as money, "mere" facts, and mathematical models--are treated by us as important objective facts. On the other hand, our understanding of the concrete realities of meaning and value in which our daily lives are actually embedded--love, significance, purpose, wonder--are treated as arbitrary and optional subjective beliefs. This is because, to us, only quantitative and instrumentally useful things are considered to be accessible to the domain of knowledge. Our lifeworld is designed to dis-integrate knowledge from belief, facts from meanings, immanence from transcendence, quality from quantity, and "mere" reality from the mystery of being. This book explores two why should we, and how can we, reintegrate being, knowing, and believing?
128 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 21, 2017
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March 11, 2022
An incredibly important book. A slim yet dense treatise on Christian platonism but more accurately described as a jeremiad against the foundational philosophical bankruptcy of modernity.
Could use some editing for sentence-level clarity. Not an introductory or popular philosophy book. However -- could change your life.
Could use some editing for sentence-level clarity. Not an introductory or popular philosophy book. However -- could change your life.
January 18, 2018
Excellent work! Modern Christian Platonism quite literally crammed into 115 pages. It’s only missing the integration of aesthetics and truth.
April 23, 2025
Understanding Christian Platonism connects key concepts about ontology, especially the Theory of the Forms. It's clear to see the Platonic influence pass down from Augustine, to Anselm, to Aquinas, and to CS Lewis. Not only does this philosophy provide guardrails against the two extremes, dualism and materialism, but it also enhances the reality of heaven itself.
August 15, 2019
To come later
October 18, 2021
Dense, foundational, very good.
September 11, 2022
It's not a bad book, but it's difficult to read and could use some better editor and clearer sentence structure, sometimes things were harder to graph than they should've been.
February 13, 2023
Genius.
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