Deception’s Slavery Consider fleeting smiles in the shadows which cling to the feet of the most deceptive. Aladdin, as he dons his false identity, demands enslavement of all who are won by the deception. He is proud of this arrangement, of being the deceiver. He reveals the profound sickness of disdain, an apathy rooted in…
Analysis and Prudence So let us explore the notion of mind as a battlefield, where divine truth clashes with worldly deceits. The mind is an element of spirit and body which must be harnessed and shaped, like all other interactions of the spirit with body, through disciplined virtue-building, lest it succumb to demonic oblivion. The…
The Common Light of Elevation in Spirit and Rationality in Material Manteic ontology (https://24k.cc/?s=manteic; click for a listing of articles on the topic) is a bold proposition that challenges both Heideggerian existentialism and the idea that logical positivism as a rule for understanding the material necessarily refutes spirit. At its core, the manteic ontology posits…