Essays on the Sociology of Knowledge. By Karl Mannheim. Edited by Paul Kecskemeti. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1952. Price 25s.)
Essays on the Sociology of Knowledge. By Karl Mannheim. Edited by Paul Kecskemeti. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1952. Price 25s.)
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知识社会学论文集。
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10.1017/s003181910005960x
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1953
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B. Wootton
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B. Wootton
reflection leads us to acknowledge the occurrence of "implicit love of God" in men; this occurs as something "infinitesimal" within the network of necessity or "gravity" (I think this term is coined to denote the genus of which physical necessity and psychic motivation are species). This "implicit love of God" is fully analysed in Waiting upon God. Simone Weil's theodicy is in extreme contrast to that of Leibnitz, for it emphasizes the contrast between the seemingly infinitesimal factor of Grace and the evil necessity of the world. The world exists because it has issued from God; it manifestly falls short of full being; it is created to wean our desires from the things of sense. Through contemplation of the world's brute necessity and especially through "letting it enter our soul" by way of unconsoled affliction, we may become de-created and so re-enter God. This is the inner meaning of the Christian images of incarnation and crucifixion. Of course the contrast is not as simple as that. The contemplative attitude of "extreme attention" (a central concept) discovers unsuspected beauty in brute necessity and in tragic human attachments. And there is a certain limited place for voluntary effort, itself also a queer kind of necessity. Morality is a "violence that we do to ourselves." It should be restricted to clear and inescapable duties. We have to contemplate moral good and evil with an equal eye in order to be drawn towards the Good. Goodness of heart comes not from morality but from Grace. She faces quite candidly, I think, the special difficulties of this type of philosophy. And one may fairly call hers a philosophical mysticism; her "extreme attention" is to intelligible similarities and differences rather than to sensuous imagery. Her attitude to the Catholic Christian fund of wisdom on the one hand and to ecclesiastical claims on the other, and her emphasis on the need to purge Christianity of Judaism seem to me worth pondering. Her conception of philosophy is in line with the Greek view of Theoria as a process of conversion towards the divine (G. and G., p. 118 ff., abridged):