"It is hard to deny that the sense of freedom is declining in the West, precisely in connection with the decline of the religious sense. Because freedom is first of all a religious concept, freedom with respect to the Truth. Apart from religion, freedom gets linked with a
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materialistic feeling of being alive, it becomes freedom 'from'; freedom to do what we want, as long as other people's 'body' is not hurt; where one does not understand why other people, if they are viewed merely as 'bodies,' must be held to be worthy of respect. While the only
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freedom that 'must' be guaranteed is the freedom to seek the truth; the freedom of reason, which is inseparable from a religious significance attributed to reason itself." (DN 1973)
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Replying to @_CLancellotti
Been reading your translation of Crisis of Modernity. So good and so relevant today.
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