A silent conscience is a restricted/truncated conscience.
Tom B.
On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, M.Eldred_artefact wrote:
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> Cologne, 18 September 1996
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> "But how does one, even "one of the few and seldom self-selecting ones,"=
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> authentically say the sway of truth? The truth sways, it would seem, in=
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> the silence of the call of conscience. Can thinking uncover the sway with=
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> any more than a "formal indication" of a certain sort of silent devotion=
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> (Hingabe), for attending to the call of being? So the truth about truth t=
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> Well, yes, but preferably minus the vocabulary of Christian piety. There =
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> occurrence that opened history. We're stuck with the opening of aletheia =
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> have to think about it. (Now I anticipate Bob Scheetz drawing some analog=
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> other with Eve's apple and the knowledge of good and evil.)
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> Michael
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