22. If we take our images of the infinite too literally, they are likely to come into conflict with one another. If the infinite is "fortune" (as many people would have said in Late Antiquity, when Tyche was a great goddess), in what sense is it also "justice" or "wisdom" or "love"? Fortune is arbitrary. Justice is purposeful. Wisdom contemplates. Love attracts. All of them seem to be elements in the what-is-greater-than-our-control. Yet, that infinite cannot be reduced to any one of them.
Published on April 16, 2014 09:16