May. 4th, 2005

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"I liberate man from the constraint of a spirit become an end in itself; from the filthy and degrading torments inflicted on himself by a chimera called conscience and morality, and from the claims of a freedom and personal autonomy that only very few can ever be up to." -- A. H.

This is from something I barely skimmed the beginning of on LRC, though it is from a lecture by a man I have been researching lately, as many of us have. It moves from from the Third Reich to the Spanish in the New World as depicted in Reinhold Schneider's novel of Las Casas. That is a work I have never read by an author I never heard of beyond his being the subject of a study by von Balthasar. Perhaps someone who knows German literature better than I might want to comment.

Meanwhile, some reflections on conscience, with apologies to those who are annoyed by my recent preoccupation with the author.

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