Sublime

Taylor, who affirms the genius of Durkheim but turns him against himself, shows with this triad how the social function of religion adds to the opaqueness of divine action.

Kierkegaard’s rejection of apologetics (and its use of reason) is to be seen as part and parcel of his rejection of the modern conception of reason—not of reason altogether. This signals a Kierkegaardian way forward that does not entail going back to Aristotle.

daily encounters large and small, we are challenged to remember that our animating commitment is to love others, and that our personal mandate is to grow in love.

At bottom, love as a posture values and pursues the flourishing of others.

The General Assembly accused the Marrow (and suspected its supporters) of encouraging antinomianism and a subtle form of universal redemption.

The three political lies: 1.From Hobbes, government is not about the common good or providing basic needs. It is about preserving property. 2.From Hobbes and Locke, economics is a moral-free math. Humanity’s equality need not translate to economic equity. 3.From Smith, justice is retributive—it is about punishing rule-breakers—not about making righ

Purpose, hope and dignity are some of the principles that define a public philosophy of postliberalism.

The philosopher Erik Wielenberg argues for this, what he calls “non-natural non-theistic moral realism.”

But, for Rawls, the most important comparison was between “justice as fairness”—the name he used to refer collectively to his own principles—and the utilitarianism that dominated political philosophy at the time.