Eric Vanden Eykel

evandeneykel.bsky.social

20 October 2026 13:38

A while back, I received the exciting news that my book on the Magi was being translated into Italian! Thrilled to see that it is available for pre-order, and that it has a cover! www.unilibro.it/libro/vanden...

Rattlesnake Solutions

rattlesnakes.bsky.social

20 October 2026 03:02

Since rattlesnakes are typically at the top of the list of animals people are scared of, let's qualify that fear with facts.

John Krambuhl

johnkrambuhl.bsky.social

20 October 2026 02:59

This illuminates so many quirks and surds in our education system. The one I’m thinking about tonight is the way the social goods of college sports are largely severed from their proper ends in cultural and personal value.

Jonathan Heaps

jonathanrheaps.bsky.social

20 October 2026 02:59

This isn't to say that the realization of personal value via cultural values has no social or vital pay-offs--Lonergan calls persons "originating values" bc they generate other goods--but if you get your scale out of order, this makes the whole scheme progressively less effective over time.

Jonathan Heaps

jonathanrheaps.bsky.social

20 October 2026 02:59

Lonergan's scale of values clarifies the moral confusion at work: education is a cultural value ordered foremost to the realization of personal value. The student loan system (& the universities themselves) are a social value ordered to the realization of both. We're mostly backwards on this.