Sublime

Dans l'Antiquité, les règles du discours étaient rigoureusement codifiées : pour dire ce qu'il voulait dire, un auteur devait le dire d'une certaine manière, selon des modèles traditionnels, selon des règles prescrites par la rhétorique ou la philosophie. Les Pensées de Marc Aurèle, par exemple, ne sont pas l'effusion spontanée d'une âme qui

Most philosophers since Descartes have attached importance to the theory of knowledge, and their doing so is largely due to him. “I think, therefore I am” makes mind more certain than matter, and my mind (for me) more certain than the minds of others.

In order to be present, I must understand the working of my thinking mind, that its function is to situate and explain, but not to experience. Thought is made up of accumulated knowledge in the form of images and associations, and it seizes an experience only to make it fit into categories of the known. Although it can entertain the new when it is

“You are what you think” is a motto that reduces human beings to brains-on-a-stick. Ironically, such thinking-thingism assumes that the “heart” of the person is the mind. “I think, therefore I am,” Descartes said, and most of our approaches to discipleship end up parroting his idea.