Scattered notes on life. Maintaining the connection with the long views: poetry, history, literature, friendship, love - distant echoes of Principia Ethica. Worries about the way we live now, can pomposity be avoided?
Sunday, June 14, 2015
That element of tragedy
Frequently, one has to admit, I am at loss at the idea that one could have genuinely christian-humanist values in this world and somehow live unperturbedly, morally. As every bloody second is a holocaust here: the weak, the innocent, the powerless are horribly, cruelly unjustly tormented every bloody second here. So, we, most of us, actually live here coarsened, hardened, frightened, without a shread of nobility, of any righteousness.
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