The universal is made known through the particular — this is the metaphysics of the Incarnation. I vehemently defend the particular because my heart begs for the universal, the Absolute.
This is certainly the best article The American PostLiberal has produced thus far, although that may be the bias of my love for the particular, my southern home, speaking, but isn’t that how it should be?
Beautifully written. The particular is what we most focus on in these dark times, for it is in the particular the greatest meaning and the truest living is to be experienced. Thank you for this excellent contribution.
Many fine points. I don't deny that there's a current of "abstract idealism" vs "hearth & home particularity" in that terrible conflict called the Civil War. Consider, though, for many a Northern man, this also would have been about hearth & home. For one thing, there was a fear of "slave labor" coming north and undercutting "free labor". So why not just let the southern states go their way? The Mississippi River. I don't think the history books talk about this much but losing the river to a foreign power must have been unthinkable to Midwestern men, given that the region would have been choked off. I guess what I'm trying to say is that a very concrete, particular thing - the mighty river - worked in favor of Lincoln's (and our) union.
This is certainly the best article The American PostLiberal has produced thus far, although that may be the bias of my love for the particular, my southern home, speaking, but isn’t that how it should be?
Beautifully written. The particular is what we most focus on in these dark times, for it is in the particular the greatest meaning and the truest living is to be experienced. Thank you for this excellent contribution.
Thank you kindly for allowing me to participate in the symposium. It was a pleasure writing this for it.
Many fine points. I don't deny that there's a current of "abstract idealism" vs "hearth & home particularity" in that terrible conflict called the Civil War. Consider, though, for many a Northern man, this also would have been about hearth & home. For one thing, there was a fear of "slave labor" coming north and undercutting "free labor". So why not just let the southern states go their way? The Mississippi River. I don't think the history books talk about this much but losing the river to a foreign power must have been unthinkable to Midwestern men, given that the region would have been choked off. I guess what I'm trying to say is that a very concrete, particular thing - the mighty river - worked in favor of Lincoln's (and our) union.