We get nowhere near knowing, much less loving, another person through impersonal means.
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Our society needs a certain kind of person and our society shapes a certain kind of person. How to align the two?
We hold two apparently contradictory beliefs about war.
Real independence of mind can be won only by a sustained process of submission to authority.
More than even a poet, Nietzsche was a prophet—a jaundiced, nihilistic, and cracked prophet, but a prophet nonetheless.
Not Lewis the existentialist, but Lewis existentially, like Kierkegaard as much a psychologist as a theologian.