I vaguely recall after Bishop Williamson had discussed how the Germans (who in his estimation, while being good at other things, completely suck at philosophy), even German Cahtolics, have had this inordinate admiration for Kant, having been perhaps their most renowned "philosopher" ... and I kindof recall him taking a subtle swipe at the German Trads (perhaps even Schmidberger) for being somewhat contaminated by this thinking themselves [...]
I remember Fr. Iscara taught us this in one of his classes. I remember he taught that Germans have a tendency (with their high IQs) to build huge ivory towers of thought, and basically to lose touch with reality. (I would continue with: philosophically, they get lost, like a helium balloon some kid let go of, and they spin off into the sky, into left field.)
Intelligence and the ability to abstract are almost synonymous. But so is creativity -- including the ability to come up with a whole house of cards built on nonsense. The Germans do have a lot of intelligence. But perhaps too much? Because they quickly detach themselves from reality, with their abstractions in matters of philosophy. They are so prone to getting detached from reality.
And you know Fr. Iscara's inimitable sense of humor. He concluded with, "and if anyone tells Fr. [Wolfgang] Goettler I said this, and they send me to the African missions as a punishment -- I'll make sure to request you as an assistant."
Along these same lines, I heard legends and stories of a great Trad philosophy professor who took his students out for some kind of break, and made them shovel manure for a bit. To keep them grounded in reality. It's hard to spin off into subjectivism "it's all in my head!" when you're shoveling heavy, smelly dung which is very CLEARLY existing in objective reality.
There's a reason why farmers, and rural folk in general, are more grounded in reality. If you have a herd of (female) cows, you're not going to have any baby cows. You can be as liberal as you want, as virtue-signalling, as LGBTQ friendly as you think you should be. But if you fail to have a bull in your herd, there will be no calves. Farmers get common sense for free, as a bonus, with their vocation.
Topic: Fr. Schmidberger on the death of Msgr Williamson (Read 57496 times)