Abstract

The starting-point is the soul, as the subject of power, will and participation in being; about it the activities of man are to be ranged. A dialectic of liberation appears, sometimes explicitly sketched, sometimes underlying the comments and analyses of human experiences. The central steps show that understanding is love, and therein lies a source of liberty, an opportunity to discover the infinite depths of Being. Love is the constraint and the aspiration to seek deliverance from temporality, finitude, unhappiness. The true, the beautiful and the good are perfections similar in structure, the knowledge of which is the enterprise of science, art and communal morals. A sizable chapter draws specific examples from theoretical physics to show what kinds of phenomena the central themes are meant to illumine.--E. W.