cacology? cacosophy? pathosophy? demonosophy?

rather than a merely intellectual "theodicy",

or even an "anthropodicy"...

a "cacology" (knowledge/study of evil) and better a "cacosophy" (wisdom of...)

a "pathosophy" (wisdom of suffering)

even a "demonosophy"

are needed.

(if only to play more seriously with as ideas)

truly searching for Truth?

a search for Truth can only truly begin after realizing one doesn't have it
historically... socially... individually...

and that whether one had, lost or disbelieved it

Muir or Moses?

consider for insights the contrasting peak experiences of Moses and Muir

well, naturally...

nature as home

nature as cage

nature as stage

unleashing the brutes

unleashing the primitives, the brutes...
history is filled with their acts
released intentionally or naively

imago dei?

or more realistically?

imago simia

Herman's "Cave and Light" conceived in the cave

Arthur Herman's Cave and Light was written by a somewhat conscious cave-dweller, for unconscious cave-dwellers

but it is a cave-dweller's comprehension of the cave, light and sun

digital vs literary self-reflections in Moscow

one might have additional reason to be somewhat more hopeful for Russia's future did fewer younger generation women seek their images in their cameras than their history's literature

vita contemplativa in Moscow?

a vita contemplativa amidst Moscow's multi-million-fold, multifarious vita activa is realistically, but truly, irrelevant

(as "Harry Haller" similarly knew)

augustine and nietzsche sub specie...

Augustine seeks in his life and writings to make sense of his life, world and time sub specie dei

Nietzsche sub specie nihil