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?
Question:
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.
I’ve been thinking about Monday’s letter. People tend to assume – have you noticed? -- that since people are no longer inhibited about discussing sex, people have fewer misconceptions about it.