Self and Soul A Defense of Ideals
88 Ancient Ideals the dictum to encompass everyone who lives; he seems to be both respecting and radically revising the Hebrew B ...
The Saint 89 The rich man cries out for a touch of water to cool his tongue. No. He asks to return to earth if only for a moment ...
90 Ancient Ideals more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety- nine righ teous persons who need no repentanc ...
The Saint 91 read the parable as one is read by it. A young man tires of his life at home and he goes to his father and asks for ...
92 Ancient Ideals Yahweh, the father who is the father of all, is far more merciful than his followers previously imagined. If y ...
The Saint 93 But what are we to make of the close of Jesus life? What are we to make of the crucifi xion? “This was a great Defe ...
94 Ancient Ideals may diff er radically enough from the values of the Hebrew Bible for him to have founded a new religion, but J ...
The Saint 95 the scriptures of what has come to be called the Axial Age proclaim. Yet both of these states bring on unity of bei ...
96 Ancient Ideals piece of trea sure he owns has a story attached to it. He knows where he won such and such a sword, who gave h ...
The Saint 97 taining it. He wanted a better house, he wanted a swimming pool, a second car was needful— and lo, the event came, ...
98 Ancient Ideals know what to do with the temptation of the other Soul ideals— fabricate them and sell them. Culture now largel ...
The Saint 99 with— one another is almost out of cultural circulation. Confucius is a curiosity. Buddha and the radical Jesus: th ...
When does a human being attain the highest state? At what point is Soul most potently manifest? To these questions, the warrior ...
The Thinker 101 the monk who feeds the poor, the teacher of love who turns the other cheek, not out of cowardice but out of comp ...
102 Ancient Ideals to aim for, life fl attens out and becomes empty. The world goes a blander shade of pale. Without ideals, lif ...
The Thinker 103 understanding of others, and sometimes with persecution. But the potential reward is great: the thinker may actu ...
104 Ancient Ideals he eventually shot and consumed (the extreme of dining luxury for him), signify his commitment to simple diet ...
The Thinker 105 being mistaken for somebody else and may securely speak to anyone: such is our desert, and believe me, it is lon ...
106 Ancient Ideals surely by virtue of his fraught relations with reading. No au then tic thinker could write an essay as unambi ...
The Thinker 107 Reading can take you away from your fundamental task. Thus Schopenhauer’s view that most so- called phi los o ph ...
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