Tag: honour
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The Tyranny of Certainty: How Absolutism Distorts the Soul’s Path to Justice The 1950 film Rashomon, directed by Akira Kurosawa, is a masterful exploration of the human soul’s deepest contradictions. I’ve been a big fan of Kurosawa since discovering his work as a teenager, however this is one which took time and experience to fully…
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The Weight of Inaction: Cowardice as the Most Foundational Sin and the Last to be Conquered in Materiality Hamlet, whatever version you wish to watch, is a clear mirror held to the human soul’s deepest struggles, revealing how the sin of Cowardice, rooted in the Fear moment of the Confusion aspect, paralyses action and distorts…
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Redirect Your Anger The first domain of Kratos rules, in rejections and acceptances, is where we lay down our foundational stones upon which a virtuous life may be built. We choose what to uphold and what to cast aside, shaping our moral landscape like an architect designing a grand cathedral. For what happens when that…
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A Christian Philosopher’s Take on Batman Versus Joker In the sprawling metropolis of Gotham, teetering on the brink of chaos, we find ourselves confronted with a moral conundrum as old as humanity itself. The Dark Knight is a philosophy film cloaked in the garb of cartoonish comic book heroism. It invites us to ponder the…
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Sin and Error; Most Outwardly Amnesis The sin of Amnesis is a dreadful forgetting eroding all virtues into nothingness, so it becomes much more than some personal failing; it is the rot at the heart of all failures in civilisation. Most horrible of all forgetfulness is in our godly purpose. The erosion of history’s lessons,…
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A Christian Philosopher Watches The Godfather There exists a profound confusion in this age of noise regarding greatness. We tend to equate importance with stature: a towering building, a commanding voice, or an unquestioned position. Something within each of us admires the one who sits highest upon the mountain, yet they more often remain blinded…
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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…
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Rebirth Through Truth What is the final battle? Lies are destroyed where soldiers in Christ confront the vileness of worldly material ambitions for what they actually are: denials of Spirit. Spirit thus emerges reborn through the highest power: God’s. Spiritual alchemy transforms falsehoods into truth, despair into hope, and all death into life. In Logos…
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Balancing Pride and Humility Fight against pride’s perils, the armour padding of Temperance brings full value to Magnanimity and Honour. Like Conservation and Excellence, Temperance in the Propriety moment enables the work of the virtues in Awareness and Morality moments. In the case of Temperance, it enables comfort in the armoured boots of Magnanimity, and…
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Devotion to the Divine Bond Ah, dearly beloved! Shift your focus to where we stow our blade cleaving division in Loyalty, the sheath to the sword of Willpower. This is an emotional bond and divine covenant, a truth-forged alliance tempered by ethical commitment’s steel. In Eros’s domain, where relationships and Logos dynamics entwine, higher Loyalty…