Christian Classics

Vivisection Morality

“I don’t approve of mixing ideologies,” Ivanov continued. “There are only two conceptions of human ethics, and they are at opposite poles. One of them is Christian and humane, declares the individual to be sacrosanct, and asserts that the rules of arithmetic are not to be applied to human units. The other starts from the […]

The Outside in Man

“Fundamentally, there is one idea that shall be examined: that a human being does not exist as a self-enclosed block of reality or a self-sufficient individual who takes shape solely out of inner resources; rather a human being exists also in relation to that which comes to him or her from without.” Romano Guardini

Abraham’s Duties Toward The Other

Above all Abraham is … the one whose tent was open to the four winds… Abraham must have taken the three passers-by for three Bedouins, three nomads… three Arabs indeed!… Abraham’s descendants are men to whom their ancestors bequeathed a difficult tradition of duties toward the other, which we have never finished fulfilling, an order […]

The Alarm Bell

Strictly speaking, it is not I who am ringing the alarm bell; I am starting the fire in order to smoke out illusions and knavish tricks; it is a police raid, and a Christian police raid, for, according to the New Testament, Christianity is incendiarism.” Soren Kierkegaard

Never shall I forget

“Never shall I for-get that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky. Never shall I forget those flames […]

Man will not Despise Himself

“Moral conduct… seems to depend primarily upon the inter-course of man with himself. He must not contradict himself by making an exception in his own favour, he must not place himself in a position in which he would have to despise himself.” Kant

Find the Future of The Past

“The promise of a historical event is al-ways more than what was actually realised. There is more in the past than what happened. And so we have to find the future of the past, the unfulfilled potential of the past… Even Habermas approaches the Enlightenment in this way, as a still unfulfilled project. There is […]

The Expression of A Craving

“If someone who believes in God looks around and asks ‘Where does everything I see come from?,’ …he is not craving for a (causal) explanation; and his question gets its point from being the expression of a certain craving. He is, namely, expressing an attitude to all explanations.” L. Wittgenstein

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