Literary Meme-ory
Marcel at Aggie Catholics meme’d us; here is the meme:
- Pick up the nearest book ( of at least 123 pages).
- Open the book to page 123.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the next three sentences.
- Tag five people.
Just as the water rises in a fountain and is poured out into the river-bed, so the divine goodness, essence, life, etc. which are in the Fount of all things, flow out first of all into the primordial causes and cause them to be, and then proceed through the primordial causes into their effects. This is clearly an emanation metaphor, and John Scotus [Eriugena] concludes that God is everything which truly is, since He makes all things and is made in all things, ‘as Saint Dionysius the Areopagite says.’ The divine goodness is progressively diffused throughout the universe of creation, in such a way that it ‘makes all things,and is made in all things, and is all things.’
From Vol 2. of Copleston’s A History of Philosophy.
So who do we meme? Jackie, Tara, Dim, Kris, and of course, Jeff (Our apologies if any of y’all have already been tagged and/or don’t cotton to the meme thing).
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Okay David–it’s done!
Comment by tara — January 30, 2008 @ 4:30 pm
Thanks! I’ll post my (current) response on my blog. On the 25th, the Curt Jester did this same meme and I left the following in his combox:
The meme would have been significantly better if it had asked for the first full paragraph beginning on page 123. First, it would have saved me the annoyance of having to count sentences. Have you ever tried hunting for a period at 11:30 at night? It ain’t easy. Second, as a book lover, it would have given me a bit more to judge the worth of a book.
Anyway, here, according to the criteria, is what is written in THOMIST REALISM AND THE CRITIQUE OF KNOWLEDGE, by Etienne Gilson:
“One might say, for example, that an infant begins with a vague notion that its sensations or perceptions grasp really existing objects. Later on, thanks to the spontaneous application of the first principals and by comparing the different contents of perception, it becomes possible to apply the abstract notion of existence to certain perceptions. This extension is carried out so spontaneously that it soon goes beyond perceptions and embraces simple images also, thus giving rise to sense illusions, dreams and hallucinations.”
Makes you just want to run out and buy it, huh?
Comment by Dim Bulb — January 31, 2008 @ 7:50 pm
I did it too! Fun!
Comment by Kris — February 1, 2008 @ 1:58 pm