Comments for Intelligence at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 5 out of 5 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Sat, 18 May 2013 23:05:54 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/intelligence.html#comment-6953 Dear "A Reader": As far as I can tell, there is no English-language edition of La crise actuelle de l’intelligence. The closest you'll be able to come is probably in Daniélou's The Faith Eternal and the Man of Today. It's out-of-print but available via used booksellers, including Amazon. -ABM - Brad Miner Tue, 31 May 2011 13:00:07 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/intelligence.html#comment-6952 Is there an English translation of this book? - A Reader Tue, 31 May 2011 12:44:50 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/intelligence.html#comment-6951 The proposition that only data that are derived from the scientific method are true is a faith based assertion that contradicts itself. It is astounding how many academics subscribe to it. The contemporary relativist inhabits a house of broken mirrors. The lack of critical thinking is a serious matter. We are living through the collapse of ethics and a kind of moral catastrophe. People that would blanch at the prospect of using a plastic bag at the grocers consider adultery, unrestricted abortion, addiction, special treatment under the law for select groups, suppression of religious beliefs they find unpalatable and the criminalization of matters of conscience to be, at the worst, unpleasant necessities. We are dying for some critical thinking. - Other Joe Tue, 31 May 2011 08:01:30 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/intelligence.html#comment-6950 Pascal put this very well, when he says "We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart, and it is in this last way that we know first principles; and reason, which has no part in it, tries in vain to impugn them. The sceptics, who have only this for their object, labour to no purpose… For the knowledge of first principles, as space, time, motion, number, is as sure as any of those which we get from reasoning. And reason must trust this knowledge of the heart and of instinct, and must base every argument on them. The heart senses that there are three dimensions in space and that the numbers are infinite, and reason then shows that there are no two square numbers one of which is double of the other. Principles are intuited, propositions are inferred, all with certainty, though in different ways." - Michael Paterson-Seymour Tue, 31 May 2011 04:14:18 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/intelligence.html#comment-6946 Thank you Father Schall! This reminder: “E. F. Schumacher remarked in A Guide for the Perplexed that the most dangerous man in any society is the man who does not know himself. This self-knowing is not “scientific.” This should strike pause in all our hearts- If you missed Blake’s comments on the John Jay Report, he tried to marry heaven and hell. “You can see the disconnect between academia and religion. Academia takes a very nuanced view and religion takes a very black-and-white view on gay identity. The researchers are closer to reality” The slickness and cleverness mocks reason, but has a nice ring to it. His comments are worth reading in full because they embody the “man who doesn’t know himself” and illustrate that many will settle for scientific or even pseudo scientific explanations over revelation and common sense. How many men today know themselves? I shudder to contemplate the truth. - Achilles Tue, 31 May 2011 03:31:11 +0100