Ours is an age full of desires but impoverished in its understanding of where those desires lead--an age that claims mastery over the world but also claims to find the world as a whole absurd or unintelligible.
The western-- or Christian Platonist--tradition, he argues, tells us that man is an intellectual ani.
In The Vision of the Soul , James Matthew Wilson seeks to conserve the great insights of the Western Tradition by giving us a new account of them responsive to modern discontents.
Ours is an age full of desires but impoverished in its understanding of where those desires lead--an age that claims mastery over the world but also claims to find the world as a whole absurd or unintelligible