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>>6816666
To develop one's individuality, on the other hand, is to lead a self-centred existence allowing one's will to be swayed against order under the impulse of passion. Luther's history is the story of a revolt against order under the sway of passion. "As Luther gets older, his energy becomes less and less a soul's energy, and more and more, the energy of a temperament. Driven by great desire and vehement longings . . . possessed by the passions, loosing the tempest around him, breaking every obstacle and all external discipline. . . . Luther is the very type of modern individualism (the proto-type of modern times, Fichte calls him). But in reality his personality is rent asunder and ruined. . . . All that comes from the same cause: the absolute predominance of Feeling and Appetite . . . With Luther . . . the will has the primacy, truly and absolutely. . . . That attitude of soul naturally goes with a profound anti-intellectualism, which was besides helped by the Ockhamist and Nominalist training in philosophy, which Luther had received. . . . So in Luther the swollen consciousness of the self is essentially a consciousness of will, of "realization of freedom", as German philosophy said later on. We should have to stress too his egocentrism, and show how the self is centre for him, not certainly, as in Kant, from a chain of the human intelligence to be the measure of intelligible things, but from the chain of the individual will, cut off from the universal body of the Church, to stand solitary before God and Christ, in order to ensure its justification. . . . Behind Luther's appeals to the redeeming Lamb, behind his outbursts of confidence and his faith in the forgiveness of sin, there is a human creature which . . . will follow the will to power . . . and work its will in the world."

(Three Reformers, J. Maritain)

>>6795996
To develop one's individuality, on the other hand, is to lead a self-centred existence allowing one's will to be swayed against order under the impulse of passion. Luther's history is the story of a revolt against order under the sway of passion. "As Luther gets older, his energy becomes less and less a soul's energy, and more and more, the energy of a temperament. Driven by great desire and vehement longings . . . possessed by the passions, loosing the tempest around him, breaking every obstacle and all external discipline. . . . Luther is the very type of modern individualism (the proto-type of modern times, Fichte calls him). But in reality his personality is rent asunder and ruined. . . . All that comes from the same cause: the absolute predominance of Feeling and Appetite . . . With Luther . . . the will has the primacy, truly and absolutely. . . . That attitude of soul naturally goes with a profound anti-intellectualism, which was besides helped by the Ockhamist and Nominalist training in philosophy, which Luther had received. . . . So in Luther the swollen consciousness of the self is essentially a consciousness of will, of "realization of freedom", as German philosophy said later on. We should have to stress too his egocentrism, and show how the self is centre for him, not certainly, as in Kant, from a chain of the human intelligence to be the measure of intelligible things, but from the chain of the individual will, cut off from the universal body of the Church, to stand solitary before God and Christ, in order to ensure its justification. . . . Behind Luther's appeals to the redeeming Lamb, behind his outbursts of confidence and his faith in the forgiveness of sin, there is a human creature which . . . will follow the will to power . . . and work its will in the world."

(Three Reformers, J. Maritain)

To develop one's individuality, on the other hand, is to lead a self-centred existence allowing one's will to be swayed against order under the impulse of passion. Luther's history is the story of a revolt against order under the sway of passion. "As Luther gets older, his energy becomes less and less a soul's energy, and more and more, the energy of a temperament. Driven by great desire and vehement longings . . . possessed by the passions, loosing the tempest around him, breaking every obstacle and all external discipline. . . . Luther is the very type of modern individualism (the proto-type of modern times, Fichte calls him). But in reality his personality is rent asunder and ruined. . . . All that comes from the same cause: the absolute predominance of Feeling and Appetite . . . With Luther . . . the will has the primacy, truly and absolutely. . . . That attitude of soul naturally goes with a profound anti-intellectualism, which was besides helped by the Ockhamist and Nominalist training in philosophy, which Luther had received. . . . So in Luther the swollen consciousness of the self is essentially a consciousness of will, of "realization of freedom", as German philosophy said later on. We should have to stress too his egocentrism, and show how the self is centre for him, not certainly, as in Kant, from a chain of the human intelligence to be the measure of intelligible things, but from the chain of the individual will, cut off from the universal body of the Church, to stand solitary before God and Christ, in order to ensure its justification. . . . Behind Luther's appeals to the redeeming Lamb, behind his outbursts of confidence and his faith in the forgiveness of sin, there is a human creature which . . . will follow the will to power . . . and work its will in the world."

(Three Reformers, J. Maritain)

>>6461982
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