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Acquire Intuition And Love

Acquire Intuition And Love

Can we pass on anything greater to our children than the training to acquire intuition and love?

Probably not.

The magnitude of it makes you want to carefully consider who you are allowing to educate your kids.

Or, at least it does me…

This post makes little sense without this one.

God bless our sweet little kids.

But of course this training will not occur if the teachers do not believe that any given emotional response is any more or less valid than any other. Note the close relationship between this argument and my earlier description of what Maritain believed the teacher can accomplish: “Though intuition and love cannot be taught directly, it is the task of the teacher to help form young people so that when the opportunity comes, outside of school, for them to acquire intuition and love, they will be prepared to do so.”

-Alan Jacobs, The Year Of Our Lord 1943 (Amazon)

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Our Mercenary Heart

Our Mercenary Heart

I have been pondering this bit about the “mercenary heart” all afternoon.

The crux of it being that love itself is a uniquely self-less action.

I do not believe this is the same as “instincts,” which are natural.

Love is natural too.

But love is also profoundly human, and therefore theological.

A love enjoying their lover is no bribe, is it?

We are afraid that Heaven is a bribe, and that if we make it our goal we shall no longer be disinterested. It is not so. Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire. It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to. There are rewards that do not sully motives. A man’s love for a woman is not mercenary because he wants to marry her, nor his love for poetry mercenary because he wants to read it, nor his love of exercise less disinterested because he wants to run and leap and walk. Love, by definition, seeks to enjoy its object.

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem Of Pain (Amazon)

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