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Faith And Experience VIII Beyond Reason And Language?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Simon Tugwell O. P.
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“We feel that, even if all possible scientific questions have been answered, our existential problems (Lebensprobleme) have not been touched at all”. suppose many people would agree that we feel that there must be more to life than just getting sensible answers to sensible questions, there must be more to life than “sweet reasonableness”. “He who does not dance, does not know what is going on”. In a short story by the Russian writer, Olga Larionova, a rebellious young lady who has fallen in love against instructions laughs at the “poverty-stricken wisdom” of her thoroughly rationalist commander from Logitania. In the words of e. e. cummings:

      since feeling is first
      who pays any attention
      to the syntax of things
      will never wholly kiss you;
      wholly to be a fool
      while Spring is in the world
      my blood approves,
      and kisses are a better fate
      than wisdom

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Research Article
Information
New Blackfriars , Volume 60 , Issue 712 , September 1979 , pp. 376 - 392
Copyright
Copyright © 1979 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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