Selflessly attentive I believe is the crucial point and important to put emphasis upon. Though compassionate actions can come through the ego structure the highest ones are selfless, instinctual almost. Obviously doctrines of hell fire and fear of punishment after death stem from actually existing Bronze Age social arrangements among men, as does the Imperial Divinity concept and through such doctrines men were schooled in a peculiar Christianity rather removed from Christ but quite in conformity with time and place. Men so schooled likely had one eye on heaven and the other on the purse as they gave alms. Simone Weil is a fascinating person. A fanatic accepting tubercular death for saving the worker and a person filled with compassion. Curiously I met Salvadoran peasant Marxists when working against Contra Aid and Salvadoran death squads who were just as passionate about the worker though no longer Catholic.
I really liked this essay. My question though is why would observation and judgement come into play when God gave man freedom? In other words metaphysical courage does not rest on being as Edwards styles it so well in his sermon "Sinners in the hands of an angry God" but on our free agency to be agents of His love. God is freedom as Berdyaev has it.
Selflessly attentive I believe is the crucial point and important to put emphasis upon. Though compassionate actions can come through the ego structure the highest ones are selfless, instinctual almost. Obviously doctrines of hell fire and fear of punishment after death stem from actually existing Bronze Age social arrangements among men, as does the Imperial Divinity concept and through such doctrines men were schooled in a peculiar Christianity rather removed from Christ but quite in conformity with time and place. Men so schooled likely had one eye on heaven and the other on the purse as they gave alms. Simone Weil is a fascinating person. A fanatic accepting tubercular death for saving the worker and a person filled with compassion. Curiously I met Salvadoran peasant Marxists when working against Contra Aid and Salvadoran death squads who were just as passionate about the worker though no longer Catholic.
I really liked this essay. My question though is why would observation and judgement come into play when God gave man freedom? In other words metaphysical courage does not rest on being as Edwards styles it so well in his sermon "Sinners in the hands of an angry God" but on our free agency to be agents of His love. God is freedom as Berdyaev has it.