tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585732092994259978.post572404147294085022..comments2024-02-26T19:22:15.069-06:00Comments on Lex Christianorum: Nature's Complaint: Alan of Lille's The Plaint of Nature, Part 3Andrew M. Greenwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17242573723573203387noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585732092994259978.post-62481992673909669462010-06-04T12:36:09.683-05:002010-06-04T12:36:09.683-05:00I think a little exploration on the role of the co...I think a little exploration on the role of the cosmos in understanding man is probably warranted. There is so much to write about.<br /><br />Alan did not use the words macrocosm/microcosm. I used the terms to encapsulate what is his concept. <br /><br />There is a diffidence in natural law thought, arising I would suppose from the time of Descartes, in linking man with the larger cosmos.Andrew M. Greenwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17242573723573203387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585732092994259978.post-76305799044779618852010-06-04T11:32:28.119-05:002010-06-04T11:32:28.119-05:00Does his Latin text actually say "microcosm&q...Does his Latin text actually say "microcosm" "macrocosm" or are you paraphrasing?<br /><br />And where is macrocosm/microcosm in Catholic thought today? Where is it? When those terms are used one knows that the real original Natural Law is being used.WLWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585732092994259978.post-86614374956294539012010-06-04T11:25:15.220-05:002010-06-04T11:25:15.220-05:00Allan of Lille has much to say. His work should be...Allan of Lille has much to say. His work should be the intro to any book on the Natural Law. Notice this:<br /><br /><i>"For just as concord in discord, unity in plurality, harmony in disharmony, agreement in disagreement of the four elements unite the parts of the structure of the royal palace of the universe, so too, similarity in dissimilarity, equality in inequality, like in unlike, identity in diversity of four combinations bind together the house of the human body.</i><br /><br />That is part of the Natural Law. Notice that it is equality IN Inequality. Very different from the make up of America, and the book previously just discussed from Coons and Brennan. Today these concepts from Nature are TOTALLY Lost! All you hear today is equality, equality, equality. One never hears "inequality" or that it is very evil. <br /><br />What is going on is "monomaniacalism". Just like "Sola Scriptura", it is "Sola Equalite". The world is not built on "Sola" anything.<br /><br />You are doing the Lord's work here. This book needs to be a standard in Seminaries, Catholic colleges and universities. This book is opposite of what is going on today! Why these posts shouldn't have thousands of hits by Catholic clergy reading them is beyond me. This here is necessary reading by all and sundry.WLindsayWheelernoreply@blogger.com