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C - How Can These Two Be Reconciled? Are They Not Mutually: Ommunion and Otherness
C - How Can These Two Be Reconciled? Are They Not Mutually: Ommunion and Otherness
C - How Can These Two Be Reconciled? Are They Not Mutually: Ommunion and Otherness
Are they not mutually exclusive and incompatible with each other? Is it not true that by definition the other is my enemy and my original sin, to recall the words of Jean-Paul Sartre? Our western culture seems to subscribe to this view in many ways. Individualism is present in the very foundations of this culture. Ever since Boethius in the Fifth Century