Freedom is exercised in the confrontation by each other, in the context of an infinitely extensible work of imaginative understanding, of two irreducibly dissimilar individuals. Love is the imaginative recognition of, that is respect for, this otherness.
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“Much better … if our companion views a thing in a light different from what we do, to leave him in quiet possession of his view.17 What is the use of rectifying him if the thing be unimportant; and if important let it pass for the present, and wait a