In Praise of Love

That is what Christianity is about. It promotes itself through the earthly power of love by saying: “Yes, certain things are impossible even though it’s so powerful, but not to worry because what’s impossible down here isn’t necessarily so in the after-life.” Very basic but very potent propaganda.

Philosophy requires its practitioners of either gender to assume the roles of savant, artist, activist and lover. I have called them the four conditions of philosophy.

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That is how chance is curbed: the absolute contingency of the encounter with someone I didn’t know finally takes on the appearance of destiny.

They are internal to the process: the creative play of difference.

I mean that political action tests out the truth of what the collective is capable of achieving.

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So love remains powerful, subjectively powerful: one of those rare experiences where, on the basis of chance inscribed in a moment, you attempt a declaration of eternity. “Always” is the word used to declare eternity. Because you cannot know what that “always” means or how long it will last.

Christianity itself is the finest example of the use of love’s intensity towards a transcendental conception of the universal.