Sublime

Like a person, the church (which is ultimately a communion of persons finding life—fullness—in the person of Jesus Christ) can have its being only by being pulled outside itself to seek a horizon much bigger than itself.

Our aim will be to show that the structure of modern society affects man in two ways simultaneously: he becomes more independent, self-reliant, and critical, and he becomes more isolated, alone, and afraid. The understanding of the whole problem of freedom depends on the very ability to see both sides of the process and not to lose track of one sid

The environment in which we live—the “real environment”—is “altogether too big, too complex, and too fleeting for direct acquaintance,” Lippmann argued. “To act in that environment, we have to reconstruct it on a simpler model.” Drawing on whatever information is available to us and filtering it through our own desires and biases, each of us create

But from the standpoint of modern sociology we feel that man is necessarily a social thing, if only for the reason that no individual can come into being without a father and a mother—and this is already society.

The living being becomes a commodity on the “personality market.” The

Sie stürzten sich meist auf den Umstand, dass sich, je weiter man ins Reich des Allerkleinsten vorstößt, immer weniger ein objektives Bild der ganzen Realität zeichnen lässt.

Weg vorschreiben – einen Stellenwert am Rande zu, der ihrer tragenden Rolle nicht gerecht wird. Denn es ignoriert, dass wir einen Körper haben, der unseren Bedürfnissen einen Rahmen gibt und jedem von uns ein eigenes Wesen verleiht.

Just as beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, meaning lies in the mind of the interpreter. Differences in interpretation help demarcate who we are and to what tribe we subscribe.

Most people are unaware of the ‘systemness’ of their daily practices and how they ‘bear’ systems as they go about their weekly shop or commute or daily shower or participation in a cultural event. People can be said to ‘bear’ such system relations; – this notion generalizing Marx's thesis that people are Träger (bearers) of class relations and not