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What We Will Become Has Not Yet Been Revealed | Sebastian Garren

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[This letter is part of the Little Letter Republic, a project whose purpose is to build community intellectual community.] Dear Gavin, I enjoyed your rumination on the difference between traditionalists and rationalists. As you know, these terms are so fuzzy, inexact, and frequently misleading. Yet for me, despite their vagueness, both referents remain deeply important. I don’t know how much I can add to your already well-vibed dichotomy, but perhaps somewhere in our separate approaches we can find a delta in our understanding out of which new insights might emerge. Robinson Jeffers wrote: “The cold passion for truth hunts in no pack.” And given that I’ve been on a deep Leibniz kick these past two months, I see him as a man with no pack, and thus relevant to our conversation. The reason is this: Leibniz models the rare ability to amalgamate traditional paradigmatic questions with modern lines of inquiry. He never stops seeing the old as useful, even when it is no longer correct. He can

[This letter is part of the Little Letter Republic, a project whose purpose is to build community intellectual community.] Dear Gavin, I enjoyed your rumination on the difference between traditionalists and rationalists. As you know, these terms are so fuzzy, inexact, and frequently misleading. Yet for me, despite their vagueness, both referents remain deeply important. I don’t know how much I can add to your already well-vibed dichotomy, but perhaps somewhere in our separate approaches we can find a delta in our understanding out of which new insights might emerge. Robinson Jeffers wrote: “Th

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