Friday 29 January 2010

Love and Duty

COPENHAGEN's most famous philosopher, Søren Kierkegaard, argued in his Works of Love that Christianity is the world's greatest philosophy because it makes of love the supreme duty, the "royal law" of the philosopher king Jesus Christ.
No other philosophy -pagan or rationalist -marries love and law, and so turns desire into duty, in this way. By so doing, Christianity secures love as humanity's end; for "only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally secured against every change:'
Michael Northcott CT 22 Jan 2010