The nonfiction section in a library or bookstore is the catch-all for everything that is not fiction. Here there are only a few items: a book and a few essays, and while these do qualify as being formally nonfiction, It is intended that the thoughts be not false, but true.
The book is about the verities or the transcendentals, the True, the Good, and the Beautiful. An introduction to the verities is Whisper #16. The book, which may be purchased from Amazon.com or through any bookstore, is an attempt to counter the shallow, popular notion that everything is relative. Some truths transcend that label.
The essays are of subjects of interest to the author of this site.
There Is No Need for Adam and Eve
Dorothy Sayers and the Trinity
A short essay on an idea by Dorothy Sayers
An Essay toward the Other considers the three fundamental verities of the human experience-the True, the Good, and the Beautiful-and presents three arguments, one from the domain of each verity, in support of theism and in opposition to materialism.
- The True is the way things are.
- The Good is that which contributes to the happiness of the individual and the group.
- The Beautiful is an indefinable quality that evokes a pleasing and enjoyable inner experience.
The verities derive from a Divine source and point toward that Divine source, thus the opening sentence, "From the One, three; from the three, One." While the verities are part of the human experience, their source and their vision transcend our realm. They are of God.
The author accepts the classical view that all human intention, however flawed and misguided, looks to a final good. That final good we call happiness, and insofar as our aims and ways are shaped and guided by the True, the Good, and the Beautiful, we are drawn toward happiness.