{"id":34609,"date":"2016-06-26T14:14:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T20:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=34609"},"modified":"2016-06-26T14:14:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T20:14:25","slug":"life-among-ruins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/06\/life-among-ruins.html","title":{"rendered":"Life among “ruins”?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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The illustrious Iranian scholar and philosopher Seyyed Hossein Nasr (B.S., M.S., physics and geophysics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ph.D., history of science, Harvard University)
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\u201cWe live among ruins in a World in which \u2018god is dead\u2019 as Nietzsche stated. The ideals of today are comfort, expediency, surface knowledge, disregard for one\u2019s ancestral heritage and traditions, catering to the lowest standards of taste and intelligence, apotheosis of the pathetic, hoarding of material objects and possessions, disrespect for all that is inherently higher and better \u2014 in other words\u00a0a complete inversion of true values and ideals, the raising of the victory flag of ignorance and the banner of degeneracy. In such a time, social decadence is so widespread that it appears as a natural component of all political institutions. The crises that dominate the daily lives of our societies are part of a secret occult war to remove the support of spiritual and traditional values in order to turn man into a passive instrument of dark powers.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Seyyed Hossein Nasr<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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You might be interested to know that\u00a0the video of a lecture given\u00a0by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, whom I rank among\u00a0the most distinguished Muslim\u00a0thinkers of the past century, at BYU\u2019s Museum of Art in early September 2012, is available for viewing online. \u00a0It\u2019s entitled \u201cIslam: Truth and Beauty\u201d:<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/moa.byu.edu\/nasr\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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His coming was at least partly my idea, and yet, even though I played a modest role in arranging for his visit to campus, I missed his lecture because \u00a0I had to be in Istanbul at the time.<\/p>\n

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I know, I know. \u00a0Rough life. \u00a0And it\u2019s true: \u00a0It wasn\u2019t a bad alternative, but still . . . \u00a0I would like to have been able to attend his lecture. \u00a0So it\u2019s great to have it available online.<\/p>\n

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Posted from Brockwood Hall, Cumbria, England<\/p>\n

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