Sublime

Hilton challenged this man to stay in his profession and to embrace “a third way, a mixed life combining the activity of Martha with the reflectiveness of Mary.” Hilton concluded that “such a spirituality needs to be consciously modeled and taught.”

Paul Ricoeur and the Task of Political Philosophy

“The best and the greatest number of authors have asserted that philosophy consists of three parts: the moral, the natural, and the rational. The first puts the soul in order. The second thoroughly examines the natural order of things. The third inquires into the proper meaning of words, and their arrangements and proofs which keep falsehoods from

philosophy is a perennial invitation to reflect on how we live—to cultivate an “examined life,” as Socrates put it. I hope this book revives the ancient art of philosophy as spiritual counsel. Philosophy matters only if it teaches us how to live, how to be human.

To see one’s own point of view as relative to that of others means to live in concrete relationships and to think out one’s own ideas in relationship to the thought of others.

Alors que l’homme ordinaire a perdu le contact avec le monde, ne voit pas le monde en tant que monde, mais traite le monde comme un moyen de satisfaire ses désirs, le sage ne cesse d’avoir le Tout constamment présent à l’esprit. Il pense et agit dans une perspective universelle. Il a le sentiment d’appartenir à un Tout qui déborde les limites de l’

As Seneca said, philosophy is not a fun trick. It’s for use—for life.

Work, with all its rigors and hardships, was a participation in God’s creativity, because work touched the very essence of the human being as the creature to whom God had given dominion over the earth.