Percy-L: Literary, Religious, Scientific, and Philosophical Discussion of Walker Percy

["Brian N." <brian AT beachcitygas.com>]

Jim Piat and Friends--

> Seems to me he held there some truth or
> reality accessible to literature and the word in general which is simply not
> accessible to science  --and that it is mistaken to hold the two approaches
> the same standards or assume they are interchangeable.

I found Wendell Berry's recent book "Life Is A Miracle" to be a great 
answer to this most important consideration.  He seems to be saying that 
our options are mainly a despairing reductionism (thanks to science and 
Nietzcshe), or admit the obvious: that we live our daily lives in a 
world of "tacit knowledege" (to borrow a phrase from Michael Polanyi) 
that is beyond the self-imposed limitations of "scientific" knowledge. 
I guess there would be a third option, too: the annihilationism of 
Buddhism and other reality denial systems.  But such never have much 
appeal to me in a world where much mercy and grace is needed.