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祈りというドラマ
祈りというドラマ
日常生活の中で「自分」と呼んでいるものも、演劇(ドラマ)的構築物である。主に記憶によって、ひげそりするたびにかがみでみること、「内面を覗く」という、いとも簡単に外れやすい活動で、構築されている。普段から、この構築物を「自分」と呼び、その舞台を「現実の世界」と呼んでいる。さて、祈りという状態は、この「現実の世界」および「現実の自分」とは、岩のようにしっかりとしたものに程遠い、ということに気づくことから成り立っている。なるほど、自分は体でもって舞台を去って、舞台裏に移ることはできない。観客席に座ることもできない。けれども、舞台裏とか、観客席とかいう、そういう別の場所もあるということを思い出すことができる。現実性に乏しいこの自分は、ピエロか、英雄か、あるいは政治家であったりするが、ルージュの下に実際の自己を持っていて、舞台から離れた生活もある、ということも思い出す。この演劇的な自分は、実際の自己をどこかで隠していなければ、舞台に乗ることは一切ありえないのだから。祈りにおいて、この実際の自己は、言葉を作り出すために闘うのだ。それは、ステージ上の俳優と交わす台詞ではない。何と呼ぶべきだろうか迷ってしまう。誰もがすべてを発明したものだから、脚本家というべきか、彼は我々すべてを指示するから、監督というべきか、彼は演じ方を見ていて、我々すべてのパフォーマンスを判断するから、視聴者というべきか、その彼と交わす言葉を作り出すために闘うのだ。
(C. S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm, 1964, pp. 122-123)
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日常生活の中で「自分」と呼んでいるものも、演劇(ドラマ)的構築物である。主に記憶によって、ひげそりするたびにかがみでみること、「内面を覗く」という、いとも簡単に外れやすい活動で、構築されている。普段から、この構築物を「自分」と呼び、その舞台を「現実の世界」と呼んでいる。さて、祈りという状態は、この「現実の世界」および「現実の自分」とは、岩のようにしっかりとしたものに程遠い、ということに気づくことから成り立っている。なるほど、自分は体でもって舞台を去って、舞台裏に移ることはできない。観客席に座ることもできない。けれども、舞台裏とか、観客席とかいう、そういう別の場所もあるということを思い出すことができる。現実性に乏しいこの自分は、ピエロか、英雄か、あるいは政治家であったりするが、ルージュの下に実際の自己を持っていて、舞台から離れた生活もある、ということも思い出す。この演劇的な自分は、実際の自己をどこかで隠していなければ、舞台に乗ることは一切ありえないのだから。祈りにおいて、この実際の自己は、言葉を作り出すために闘うのだ。それは、ステージ上の俳優と交わす台詞ではない。何と呼ぶべきだろうか迷ってしまう。誰もがすべてを発明したものだから、脚本家というべきか、彼は我々すべてを指示するから、監督というべきか、彼は演じ方を見ていて、我々すべてのパフォーマンスを判断するから、視聴者というべきか、その彼と交わす言葉を作り出すために闘うのだ。
(C. S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm, 1964, pp. 122-123)
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Saturday, June 18, 2016
Lewis on rationalism
You cannot go on ‘explaining away’ for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on ‘seeing through’ things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to ‘see through’ first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To ‘see through’ all things is the same as not to see.
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Tuesday, September 09, 2014
Lovers seek for privacy. Friends find this solitud
Lovers seek for privacy. Friends find this solitude about them, this barrier between them and the herd, whether they want it or not.
[...]
In a circle of true Friends each man is simply what he is: stands for nothing but himself. No one cares twopence about anyone else's family, profession, class, income, race, or previous history. Of course you will get to know about most of these in the end. But casually. They will come out bit by bit, to furnish an illustration or an analogy, to serve as pegs for an anecdote; never for their own sake. That is the kingliness of Friendship. We meet like sovereign princes of independent states, abroad, on neutral ground, freed from our contexts. This love (essentially) ignores not only our physical bodies but that whole embodiment which consists of our family, job, past and connections. At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or sister, chief, colleague, or subordinate. Not among our Friends. It is an affair of disentangled, or stripped, minds. Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
Hence (if you will not misunderstand me) the exquisite arbitrariness and irresponsibility of this love. I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which gave value to survival.
In his insightful 1960 book The Four Loves ), C.S. Lewis
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In a circle of true Friends each man is simply what he is: stands for nothing but himself. No one cares twopence about anyone else's family, profession, class, income, race, or previous history. Of course you will get to know about most of these in the end. But casually. They will come out bit by bit, to furnish an illustration or an analogy, to serve as pegs for an anecdote; never for their own sake. That is the kingliness of Friendship. We meet like sovereign princes of independent states, abroad, on neutral ground, freed from our contexts. This love (essentially) ignores not only our physical bodies but that whole embodiment which consists of our family, job, past and connections. At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or sister, chief, colleague, or subordinate. Not among our Friends. It is an affair of disentangled, or stripped, minds. Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
Hence (if you will not misunderstand me) the exquisite arbitrariness and irresponsibility of this love. I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which gave value to survival.
In his insightful 1960 book The Four Loves ), C.S. Lewis
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014
By C.S. Lewis
By C.S. Lewis
What Satan put into the heads of our remote ancestors was the idea that they could "be like gods" - could set up on their own as if they had created themselves - be their own masters - invent some sort of happiness for themselves outside God, apart from God. And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history - money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery - the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
The reason why it can never succeed is this. God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. That's why it is just no good asking God to make us happy in our own way without bothering about religion. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended – civilizations are built up – excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin. In fact, the machine conks. It seems to start up all right and run a few yards, and then it breaks down. They are trying to run it on the wrong juice. That is what Satan has done to us humans.
From Mere Christianity ("The Shocking Alternative").
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What Satan put into the heads of our remote ancestors was the idea that they could "be like gods" - could set up on their own as if they had created themselves - be their own masters - invent some sort of happiness for themselves outside God, apart from God. And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history - money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery - the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
The reason why it can never succeed is this. God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. That's why it is just no good asking God to make us happy in our own way without bothering about religion. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended – civilizations are built up – excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin. In fact, the machine conks. It seems to start up all right and run a few yards, and then it breaks down. They are trying to run it on the wrong juice. That is what Satan has done to us humans.
From Mere Christianity ("The Shocking Alternative").
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