𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘶𝘴 (@_bonaventurian)

The intellectual virtues are an aristocratic habit. If you have the disposition, you can reignite it again through wonder and the love of truth. Otherwise, you weren't gifted. You were just rote-learned. Which is naturally meaningless outside of the high school classroom. <span class="quote-card" ...

📄Ficino's Instruction on Correcting the Passions Marsilio Ficino has quite a few remedies for combatting lust, habits of impure thought and correcting the passions generally. And this he considers especially vital for the philosopher whose way of life is directly injured by it. ...

i) If materialism is true all of reality reduces to material objects (sensible bodies). ii) Material objects reduce to the mathematical notes that fundamentally describe their operation and nature qua physics. ∴ If materialism is true reality reduces to mathematicals....