A good many years ago, I was contacted by a couple of speechwriters and policy folk for one of the presidential candidates to ask me for help with “the vision thing.” I gathered that they were talking to a lot of people. Since the specific issue they were asking about was one I know something about, we had a conference call.
Aristotle’s question endures: Which is better, the active or the contemplative life? The one wrapped up in doing things, or the one absorbed in gazing on the truth?
I really enjoy your blog, and I am writing to get your help and advice. Someone I know who rejects the Church’s teaching about sexuality wrote to me as follows. He is a candidate for a theology degree.
A certain school of scholars is devoted to seeking out esoteric teachings the great political philosophers supposedly concealed behind a glossy surface of conventional opinions that only a few insiders could see through. Far be it from me to suggest that no thinkers ever conceal their meanings, but the search for esoterica is taken a bit too far.
