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Symposium Discussion |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / THE SACRED AND THE CHALLENGE OF MODERNITY |
| Author: Thomas Molnar, Antonio de Nicolas, Robert Schadler, George Panichas, Mangalam Srinivasan, Lawrence Criner |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1986 |
| Size: 3,099 Words, 17,160 Characters |
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Thomas Molnar: I have two questions.
Antonio de Nicolas: Against whom?
Molnar: Not against, but not with, either.
de Nicolas: (Laughter). Ah, you see, and/or, there goes the loss of distributive love. Where is the logic?
Molnar: One concerns what you just said about this reinventing of the imagination and the sacred. I think that you made the mistake that you have just attacked. These things don't come about by reaching, by suddenly deciding around the table that the world has gone wrong, that modernity has destroyed tradition and that therefore what we have to do is to devise a new way of getting the tradition back.
I don't think that that is how it works. I've been accused lately of having become a Hegelian. I acce...
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..., then we've created something unique. It may be grounded on original sin, but unlike the original sin that is present everywhere and always, we've created in one time and one place something massively different than what's been everywhere and always. And that I think is maybe hubristic for us to think.
de Nicolas: We have to close now. Thank you everyone for your participation.
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