"All moral evil," writes Peter Kreeft, professor of philosophy at Boston college, "consists in being what we are not or not being what we are."
I had to let that sink in. It kind of dashes by quickly while you are reading and you have to say, 'Wait a sec … what was that again?'
What Kreeft, a Catholic, has done here is to restate the doctrine. in very simple, accessible terms, of sins of commission and omission. And he does the same for many of the complex ideas dealt with in his book, Doors in the Walls of the World, Signs of Transcendence in the Human Story.
Who has not endured the shame at some moment of being what he is not? Likewise, who does not regret the moment when he failed to be what he is?
I had to let that sink in. It kind of dashes by quickly while you are reading and you have to say, 'Wait a sec … what was that again?'
What Kreeft, a Catholic, has done here is to restate the doctrine. in very simple, accessible terms, of sins of commission and omission. And he does the same for many of the complex ideas dealt with in his book, Doors in the Walls of the World, Signs of Transcendence in the Human Story.
Who has not endured the shame at some moment of being what he is not? Likewise, who does not regret the moment when he failed to be what he is?
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