/lit/ - Literature

>>15758501
>You're an anti-monist, correct?

I was, formerly, a "dialectical monist," and I was also a great deal of other nasty things which undermine the soul and it's connection to God.

>but also an unabashed monotheist? this a new development?

Very much so! That aforementioned reorientation of my thinking culminated in a complete, diametric change in perspective, in my philosophy of life. A simple way of putting it is that I no longer take struggle and suffering to be the signs of evil in the world; instead, I view privation, "lack," as I always liked to put it, as not only the sign of evil but Evil itself. Still a bit of a gnostic/manichaean holdover, an Augustinian stopgap, but as soon as I see myself through some Thomistic works (and with the grace of God, produce some good works!) I'll be in a better spot. Again, very much a new change.

>>13792435
>"For the free-moving life of the animal
is struggle, and nothing but struggle,
and it is the tactics of its living, its superiority or inferiority in face of “the other”
(whether that “other” be animate or inanimate Nature), which decides the history of
this life, which settles whether its fate is to suffer the history of others or to be itself
their history. Technics is the tactics of living; it is the inner form of which the procedure of
conflict — the conflict that is identical with Life itself — is the outward expression."
Based

>>13668513