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A Mind's Matter : An Intellectual Autobiography
by: Stanley L. Jaki
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Condition: New
Binding: Paper Back
Author: Stanley L. Jaki
Publisher: Eerdmans Publishing Co (June 2002)
ISBN: 0802839606
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Stanley Jaki on Stanley Jaki: he writes not ''to satisfy mere curiosity'' but to chart the development of a mind and its course through seventy years of intellectual productivity. Driven by what John Henry Newman calls ''the wild living intellect of man,'' Dr. Jaki spent his first thirty years preparing for what he calls ''the culture war,''in which he would inevitably (and vocationally) offer his gifts to forge intellectual tools for the benefit of others ready to join or cheer the struggle. His cause? To reunite the supernatural with the natural, especially within the academics of scientific thought. Risking repitition for the sake of clarity and truth, he finds the mind's repetitive nature particularly instructive -- ''partly because the same matter, if it truly matters to one's mind, attracts the mind again and again, though with ever new nuances. The mind never works on virgin soil, but encounters everywhere structures already in place... those structures are not dead stones, but living entities... '' 311 pp.
Stanley Jaki on Stanley Jaki: he writes not ''to satisfy mere curiosity'' but to chart the development of a mind and its course through seventy years of intellectual productivity. Driven by what John Henry Newman calls ''the wild living intellect of man,'' Dr. Jaki spent his first thirty years preparing for what he calls ''the culture war,''in which he would inevitably (and vocationally) offer his gifts to forge intellectual tools for the benefit of others ready to join or cheer the struggle. His cause? To reunite the supernatural with the natural, especially within the academics of scientific thought. Risking repitition for the sake of clarity and truth, he finds the mind's repetitive nature particularly instructive -- ''partly because the same matter, if it truly matters to one's mind, attracts the mind again and again, though with ever new nuances. The mind never works on virgin soil, but encounters everywhere structures already in place... those structures are not dead stones, but living entities... '' 311 pp.
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