Schall has been so prolific of late. This one is great. Distilling it down, making it easy to understand. Machine gun philosophy here. Right on target. Eric Voegelin once wisely remarked that “no one needs to participate in the aberrations of his time.” But the temptation to do so, to be politically and culturally correct—and it is a temptation—is very great. As C. S. Lewis noted in The Screwtape Letters, our deviation from the good usually does not begin with the big aberrations but with the small ones. Josef Pieper rightly told us that it is not the “lie” that is the real basis of culture but “leisure.” Leisure is the Aristotelian word used to describe what we do when all else that we “need” to do is completed. The implication is that the most important things are not really the economic or political ones that have to do with just living and not living well. But to live well, we must think and think about what is, about what we did not make or establish. The things that are contain their own order that we are to discover lest we deceive ourselves and see only what we want to see. catholicworldreport/Item/2901/15_lies_at_the_basis_of_our_culture.aspx
Posted on: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 21:51:59 +0000
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