tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21083542.post7739120394463820228..comments2023-10-30T04:13:46.636-07:00Comments on Witness To Hope - A Young Catholic's Thoughts: Nominalism - The Source of Man's Degradation?Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845905351822140629noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21083542.post-79708686482513615682008-02-02T20:45:00.000-08:002008-02-02T20:45:00.000-08:00Diocese of Peoria. If you want to talk more, I'm ...Diocese of Peoria. If you want to talk more, I'm on facebook (Tim Hepner) and I have e-mail (tdhepn04@smumn.edu). I'm studying in Winona, MN at Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary.<BR/><BR/>God Bless brother.Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00055416264435525985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21083542.post-57259695760786551562008-01-16T21:50:00.000-08:002008-01-16T21:50:00.000-08:00That is a very interesting insight on the nature o...That is a very interesting insight on the nature of man as a society as well and I think you're right. It destroys the social nature of man. Society as a reality can no longer exist with individuals who are complete unto themselves. Thus society becomes a Hobbesian affair, in which there is nothing but social contract in exchange for power rights.<BR/><BR/>Thanks so much for the comment, I will definitely reflect on it more because I think you are making a very VERY essential point that never crossed my mind, I completely forgot to think of it in terms of community.<BR/><BR/>I see you're a Seminarian...which Diocese?Harrisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17845905351822140629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21083542.post-11784408217526124432008-01-16T20:16:00.000-08:002008-01-16T20:16:00.000-08:00I agree that nominalism is the source of most of t...I agree that nominalism is the source of most of the nastiness that underlies today's thought, both popular and intellectual. Among other things, it's what makes Darwin's theory--an otherwise harmless account of a natural occurrence--something potentially anti-Christian if taken to a metaphysical level.<BR/><BR/>But think of it in terms of community, too: if I am something unto myself (I don't share a nature with anything else), then I can never come into true communion with another person. I am something completely original, and all that's left is to impose my will on others or to have theirs imposed on me (kinda like with Nietzsche). <BR/><BR/>For me, that's huge--we lose all true personal contact and become distant from God, nature, and each other, and everything simply becomes utilitarian.<BR/><BR/>--TimTimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00055416264435525985noreply@blogger.com