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Theology - Creation: Not Good For Man

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It is not good for man to be alone. Hegel says, It is impossible.

“I have my self-consciousness not in myself but in the other. I am satisfied and have peace with myself only in this other – and I am only because I have peace with myself; if I did not have it, then I would be a contradiction that falls to pieces. This other, because it likewise exists outside itself, has its self-consciousness only in me, and both the other and I are only this consciousness of being-outside-ourselves and of our identity; we are only this intuition, felling, and knowledge of our unity. This is love, and without knowing that love is both a distinction and the sublation of the distinction, one speaks emptily of it. This is the simple, eternal idea.”

Williams explains: “Our thinking . . . is ultimately radical loving: ecstasy, being-outside-ourselves.”

posted by Peter J. Leithart on Monday, October 19, 2009 at 9:49 am

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