Sixth Sunday after Epiphany

‘Boredom is a serious matter… Our aversion to being bored has considerably greater significance than a mere reluctance to experience a state of consciousness that is more or less unpleasant. The aversion arises out of our sensitivity to a far more portentous threat… that we have no interest in what is going on.’
- Harry Frankfurt
‘I [...]

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Twenty-seventh Sunday after Pentecost

‘…We must resist the temptation to speak of reconciliation; we must, if we are to be honest with ourselves, resist any “blessed rage” for order, or closure, in human life. In order to take our own fragility seriously enough, in order to dwell long enough with the reality of human suffering, we must simply accept [...]

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Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost

‘When a person desires to love, what he desires is that he be in a position to act with confident and settled purpose. By providing us with final ends… love saves us both from being inconclusively arbitrary and from squandering our lives in vacuous activity that is fundamentally pointless because, having no definitive goal, it [...]

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Fourth Sunday after Pentecost

‘Being concerned for the true interests of his beloved surely requires that the lover also be moved by a more elementary desire to identify those interests correctly. In order to obey the commands of love, one must first understand what it is that love commands.’

- Harry Frankfurt

‘The intended function of promising and commanding is [...]

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Fourth Sunday in Easter

‘Out of love of humanity I am willing to admit that most of our actions are in accordance with duty; but, if we look closer at our thoughts and aspirations, we everywhere come upon the dear self, which is always salient, and it is this instead of the stern command of duty (which would often [...]

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