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SELECTED ESSAYS FROM
ABSOLUTES TO THE THINGS
THAT CAN BE OTHERWISE
JAMES V. SCHALL, SJ
TAN Books
Charlotte, North Carolina
Copyright 2018 James V. Schall
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Excerpts from the English translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church for use in the United States of America 1994, United States Catholic Conference, Inc. Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Used with permission.
All excerpts from papal homilies, messages, and encyclicals Copyright Libreria Editrice Vaticana. All rights reserved.
Unless otherwise noted, Scripture quotations are from the Revised Standard Version of the BibleSecond Catholic Edition (Ignatius Edition), copyright 2006 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2018950326
ISBN: 978-1-5051-1133-0
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We heard with our own ears, O God, our fathers have told us the story of the things you did in their days, you yourself, in days long ago.
Psalm 44:12
If we would say that man is too insignificant to deserve communion with God, we must indeed be very great to judge.
Pascal, Penses, no. 511
Middling people are shocked at the wickedness of the wicked. Gibbie, who knew both so well, was shocked only at the wickedness of the righteous. He never came quite to understand Mr. Schlater; the inconsistent never can be understood. That only which has absolute reason in it can be understood of man. There is a bewilderment about the very nature of evil which only He who made us capable of evil that we might be good, can comprehend.
George MacDonald, Sir Gibbie, in
George MacDonald: An Anthology, no. 326
Then the prophecies of the old songs turned out to be true, after a fashion, said Bilbo. Of course, said Gandalf. And why should they not prove true? Surely you dont disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You dont really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world, after all. Thank goodness, said Bilbo laughing, and handed him the tobacco-jar.
J. R. R. Tolkien, Last lines in The Hobbit
Truth consists in the equation of intellect and thing. Now the intellect that is the cause of the thing is related to it as its rule and measure; whereas the converse is the case with the intellect that receives its knowledge from things. When, therefore, things are the measure and rule of the intellect, truth consists in the equation of the intellect to the thing; as happens in ourselves. For according as a thing is, or is not, our thoughts or our words about it are true or false. But when the intellect is the rule or measure of things, truth consists in the equation of things to intellect; just as the work of an artist is said to be true when it is in accordance with his art.
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, I, 21, 2
A philosopher has of necessity tasted the other pleasures since childhood, but it isnt necessary for a profit-lover to taste or experience the pleasure of learning the nature of the things that are and how sweet it is. Indeed, even if he were eager to taste it, he couldnt easily do so.
Plato, The Republic, IX, 582b
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T HE title of this collection of essays, Run That by Me Again, is a colloquialism that comes from a common experience that we all have probably had at one time or another. We hear something that is presented or explained to us that does not quite make sense. After a bit, the speaker is waiting for our reaction to his wisdom. We, frankly, do not want to admit that we understood very little of the whole gist or argument. So we request that the narrator run what he said by us one more time. And often it works. We really do need to hear many things more than once to see the full force of their initial statement. Once understood, we can better state why we agree or disagree with what we have heard and on what basis.
This book is a collection of some fifty-five sundry essays, each relatively brief. They cover a wide range of related and unrelated topics. One of the glories of a book of selected essays is that most anything can come up. In this world, we can find no real limit of interesting things to consider. While few readers will have read any of these particular essays previously, still most of the topics treated are ones that are in common circulation and interest. Most people have given some attention to evil, libraries, war, and even to cocktail time and the meaning of Easter. In that sense, each of these essays can be imagined as taking a second or third look at issues that we all need to or would like to think about again and again. And I suppose some of these essays are on topics that we do not want to think about but we know that we should.
We are not beings who understand what we learn once and for all. We will often find that things look quite different at fifty than they did when we were twenty. By our eighties, we barely recollect what we maintained when we were in our teens. And yet we are quite conscious that we are the same person that we were in all the stages of growth in our lives. We are given one life to lead and we are leading it, seeking to understand it. We realize that the responsibility for many things that now exist in the world, whether we like it or not, resides in us, in our actions and choices.
A book of collected essays, I think, has certain advantages. Many of these essays are on topics that are obviously related to each other. Determinism and absolutes, for example, have something to do with each other. The future and outer space touch on each other. Still, each separate topic retains its own intelligibility. Likewise, we seldom see put together side by side theological, literary, and philosophic topics. The essays in this book do not follow any chronological or logical order. There is reason for this. It keeps before us the uniqueness of each topic as it comes up. Just as in life, we never know what sort of issue will turn up that we must deal with next.
But when we reread something, when we let our minds run through a known issue again, we realize the attention that we have to give to things if we are to understand them. And I would add that, strictly speaking, we cannot understand absolutely everything about any real thing, including its existence. No doubt our own talents, or lack thereof, have something to do with what we learn from our experience. Some people probably can go through something twenty times and never get it; others get it the first time through. Still others understand it well enough but do not want to admit the truth of something. Such an admission would interfere with the way they live. Given a choice, truth was sacrificed to custom or desire.
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