“The characteristic of the modern age is that men concentrate on themselves and what they can and want to do. This and this alone is what life is about. No outside source can guide, command, or coerce us. Man is autonomous. He is only what he makes himself to be, whatever it is. He does not make himself into what he ‘ought’ to be. The word ‘ought’ has no meaning.”
In a recent commentary, Father James Schall, S. J., Professor of Political Philosophy at Georgetown University, reflected on one aspect of the meaning of life as reflected by the life of Jesus.
Crisis Magazine: The Point of Christianity (18 JUL 12)
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