/lit/ - Literature

>>8720496
Sacrifice here betokens self-immolation, man is always giving himself to something.
Departing from maistre now, men naturally desire happiness, we obtain happiness by giving ourselves over to that which makes us happy. However, (back to maistre) man is naturally irrational and therefor does not know where his ultimate beatitude layeth nor how to approach it, and so some men see their happiness in war because they lack (at least in part) that unnatural intellect which is capable of seeing farther as to where ultimate happiness lies.
As for instance, the unnatural thinking man knows that war cannot make him happy except by self-delusion, because war is violence and direct exposure to violence atrophies moral character. The intellect says keep moral character, it tends to potentiality and by extension being, and being is convertible with good. The intellect has sight of metaphysical things, which the doctrine and tradition of the Catholic church nurtures as a way of overthrowing the dark instincts that maistre describes man as having innate from birth.