INTEGRITY AND FREEDOM OF RELIGION: BREAKDOWN WILL LEAD TO BREAKTHROUGH IF (AND ONLY IF) MAN REMAINS TRUE TO GOD
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6387713Keywords:
alterity, God, identity, integrity, manAbstract
Insight, ‘a thousand-mile journey begins with a single step’, instruction, ‘finish with the same care you took in beginning’ (Tao Te Ching, 64), and hence the need for always choosing right, testify to integrity, while questioning our human quest. Who will we be, perforce, become, between the ‘wholly other’ and the ‘wholly same’? If ‘we are learning for the schoolroom, but not for real life’ (Seneca, letter 112), then the answer to this question does not really matter.
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