[percy-l] "I don't pay much attention to the right or the left. . ."
Brian N.
brian at beachcitygas.com
Thu Jan 2 13:19:02 EST 2003
Jim Piat and Friends--
> Seems to me he held there some truth or
> reality accessible to literature and the word in general which is simply not
> accessible to science --and that it is mistaken to hold the two approaches
> the same standards or assume they are interchangeable.
I found Wendell Berry's recent book "Life Is A Miracle" to be a great
answer to this most important consideration. He seems to be saying that
our options are mainly a despairing reductionism (thanks to science and
Nietzcshe), or admit the obvious: that we live our daily lives in a
world of "tacit knowledege" (to borrow a phrase from Michael Polanyi)
that is beyond the self-imposed limitations of "scientific" knowledge.
I guess there would be a third option, too: the annihilationism of
Buddhism and other reality denial systems. But such never have much
appeal to me in a world where much mercy and grace is needed.
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