Wisdom included insight and intuition as well as definitions and arguments (the true); it included action, living well, ethical and political wisdom (the good), not just professorial knowledge; and it included Plato’s idea that a life surrounded by beautiful things promotes the beauty of the soul (the beautiful). The person who managed

The short answer is that once rationality takes over, a profound inversion takes place: truth ceases to be a claim made upon us, and becomes a claim we make on behalf of our assertions.

For in fact, it never fails, the one true God always turns out to be our God, and religious truth turns out to be a zero-sum game in which the truth of our religion comes at the cost of the falsity of other religions.

Truth is not what happens, but something going on in what happens. So, to think of truth as an ‘event’ is to think of something that is trying to happen in something. Truth is the process of trying to become-true.

Nobody is against any of that.

argue that by criticizing the excessive rationalism of modernity, postmodernity has created an opening for what has been called the ‘return of religion’.

There is no such thing as Reason (as it was understood by the Enlightenment at least), but there are good reasons and bad ones.

because wisdom requires that the three hang together.

Pure Reason has a low tolerance for anything that is not Pure Reason, which is, I offer, a bit unreasonable.