Kali Tribune

Category: Knowledge

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Knowledge / Podcast

Appetite for Destruction

In this podcast we provide the exposition of traditional notion of evil as privation, with the customary KT spin: as contemporary intellectual climate tends to reject the old fashioned metaphysics of evil – where evil is just an addendum to the metaphysics of good – because it is, supposedly, inadequate to explain the “horrors of 20th Century”, we introduce two real life examples of evil people to illustrate just how deep into depravity the seemingly innocuous act of privation can go.

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Knowledge / Video

Common Ground

When talking about the ways in which Christianity was infused into ancient world and the ways in which it preserved it, or, rather, maintained its continuity all the way to our day and age, we tended to focus on intellectual profusion of Christian Revelation into the legacy of great pre-Christian metaphysical tradition. This time around we present less intellectual, but rather quite literal demonstration of the common ground upon which the continuity of ages is being preserved to our day. This is the premiere of the freshly formed Kali Tribune’s Ministry for Archaeological Affairs and Anti-Antichrist Measures video material, apologizes for bad audio at few places due to wind.

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Ask Kali / Knowledge / Podcast

KT Answers, pt.3: All or Nothing

In the third episode of our Q&A podcast we address the questions about the nature of substance, being, person and soul, while pointing out the pitfalls of confusing the popular Science Fiction narratives with the philosophy proper.

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Knowledge / Podcast / Politics

Harmony of Tongues

In this podcast Mihai attempts to answer questions of ethnicity, race, nationalism and the ontological place of sexes from the perspective of Eastern Church and its Tradition.

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Essay / Knowledge

In the Ending of the Year

A poignant yet for this reason truly merry Christmas to all KT readers courtesy of Mihai Marinescu

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Essay / Knowledge

Re-enchantment of the world: The state of amnesia, Part 2

In the second part of his series of essays, Mihai puts forward one of the most important subjects one could think of, although it occurs surprisingly rarely: that of memory and the struggle between oblivion and recollection. In the Christian Tradition the faculty of memory is being traditionally understood as a sort of backdoor for the divine influence – aptly so, because we tend to forget about having it throughout our daily lives – and “thief in the night” rarely enters the house through the front door. Mihai draws our attention to some traditional notions about memory as such and the nature of its object and then proceed to explain why the proper use of this faculty is essential for overcoming the perils posed by essential flaws in human nature.

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Knowledge / Podcast

Basic Notions of Metaphysics: Being and Having

Why does one forget so many things in the course of one’s life? Why, on the other hand, the knowledge we retain has some peculiar, non-quantifiable, qualities to it? What it means to be in the know? These are the questions we’ll try to answer in this podcast, by referring them to one all encompassing distinction – that between ‘Being’ and ‘having being’. As always we begin with real life examples of the problem and in the course of discussion touch upon the important subject of personal identity, i.e. we denounce the error of identifying the person with the consciousness, an error that becomes quite apparent when reflecting on act of sleep and of having dreams. Also, we turn to our previous work on Nicholas of Cues’ De Visione Dei to provide us with some aid in addressing the problem on the higher level, once we abandon the ground of everyday experience.

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Knowledge / Podcast

Basic Notions of Metaphysics: What is Metaphysics Anyway?

After going through a number of metaphysical notions, now, prompted by reader’s query, we finally try to answer the simple question: what is metaphysics? The very fact that one can talk about metaphysics for a long time without explicitly defining what it is gives us an important clue about this type of knowledge, more common that most people think. We sum up some of the notions we expounded upon before and attempt to give definition of “science sought for” in both traditional sense and its modern, we would claim, misconception of the “system of science”. Also we touch upon the possible reasons for shunning it by modern thinkers like adherents of “analytical” philosophy and say few words on technology and its latent metaphysical origin.

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Essay / Knowledge

The Word of Old: Tradition, Revelation and the Impossibility of Revolution (pt. 2)

We present second part in the series on relationship of Christianity and high culture of antiquity, summarized in the notion of the palaios logos. Here, by interpreting one remarkable passage from Origen’s classical apologetic work Contra Celsum, we draw some distinctions in understanding of time, knowledge of future, human conscience and the relationship of God to man that are unique for Christianity. Our inquiry leads us before the specific problem – a pitfall most characteristic of our own age: human urge to posses the knowledge of the future, which will be treated in detail in the third part of the series.