@markstoneman Thank you! Just thrilling to see.
@markstoneman Thank you! Just thrilling to see.
@lukemperez @cliffordbeshers @tinyroofnail Thank you all! Appreciate it.
@chrisheck so glad to hear this!
@lukemperez Thinking of you and family! My goodness — the worst kind of fear. Sending you very best wishes.
@sim0ne Thank you! Glad to hear this. I often don't know how to account for it all either.
@mwerickson Thank you! I do too — that's what made me question...
@tinyroofnail Whoa, I needed this. Hadn't put those all together at all. And it really wasn't a call out, honest!
@dwalbert oof, true
@tinyroofnail I’d love to hear more on that last sentence?
@JohnBrady ha, srsly
@wcaleb So good. We just visited our godson at St. John's College in Santa Fe, where a beautiful still-intact card catalog sits opposite the computers for searching.
@mwerickson @kyleessary Beautiful indeed — I was caught up short by a similar sentiment expressed in my enormous new Bible-with-Catholic-theological-commentary: that all of this effort and detail has at its center a God who is trying to speak to His people, and speaking to you (reader) even now.
@bobwertz Our daughter's junior year season is revving up. Can't wait.
@jonah We went there the first night! Heaven. Tortillas while you wait.
@canneddragons @jonah Incredibly beautiful sunsets, adobe architecture, open sky. Saw a roadrunner today too, and enormous gray herons. Glorious. And eating my weight in Tex Mex.
@jonah I think that's the Loretto Chapel — we walked by it but not in; time was short. But might head back there tomorrow and see it.
@tinyroofnail Oh wow, just looked at images! I will put it on my list for next NYC visit. I've been doing a little bingo game of Manhattan masses every time I'm there.
@markstoneman Oh, I know — it was too warm the last several years. So this is, like, throwback to old winter. And I can't really complain. It's what our microclimate needs, etc. Hence: melodrama.
@jordanellishall Adding these to the queue. Thank you! I understand only half too; fellow travelers.
@jordanellishall (sorry, you knew that DRA was in my head already!)
@jordanellishall I'm in that book group! And I suspect this current revisitation of AM — as one way to get to foundationalist moral realism — falls into a regular cyclical attempt to counter the old conundrum of existential relativism and despair. Maybe only felt as urgent during times of acute turmoil? I got here by chasing down a very specific intellectual bottleneck starting several years ago, but it turns out to sorta track along with, yes, a vibe. I'm also reading AM's Dependent Rational Animals, though, and it's equally challenging, not least to the vibe's noxious branches of "moral foundations = political certainty." As you say, the community part is so key for AM, and it's really when we take seriously our animality and multiple vulnerabilities that see how much the virtues precede intellectual abstractions... My head is full after Myles's group last night.
@sim0ne Yes indeed — and MacIntyre is big on this: that virtues like humility are actually more important to practical reason than abstract idea-parsing (as though one could parse in isolation anyway!).
@cjhubbs Right? Lands well just now.
@tinyroofnail Ha, yeah, it's true. Also got halfway through the Goldberg/Fukuyama convo today walking to work. Good substantive convo, as advertised. Thanks.
@joshuapsteele Enjoy!