A weblog by Jonathan Ali
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Friday, June 04, 2004 Of course one's own dead mean more than the other's dead, but the other's dead cannot mean nothing. The primacy of the obligation to one's own, the natural solidarity of the same, the love that precedes principle: These fundamental attainments of human association should not be taken to suggest that moral consciousness is essentially tribal. Indeed, the knowledge of our own mystic bonds is what enables us to imagine the mystic bonds of others. Since we are particular in our affections and our affiliations, we can understand particularity of affection and affiliation in general. A general understanding of particularity: That is a fine definition of universalism, and there are no escapes from universalism, except willed ones. -- From an article by Leon Wieseltier on current events in the Middle East, from the June 7th issue of the New Republic. posted by Jonathan | 3:42 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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