Turning analytic bifocals on the Islamic State’s Irregulars

December 30th, 2014 by Charles Cameron

It seems best for us to to wear secular / sacred bifocals in our analyses. But how does the analyst gain that faculty which EF schumacher, Thomas Aquinas and Augustine call adaequatio rei et intellectus —

according to which to each plane of reality there corresponds an instrument of knowledge adequate to the task of knowing that particular level of reality