The reason for life, Jacques Maritain wrote, is self-mastery for the purpose of self-giving. It’s to give yourself as a gift to people and causes you to love and to receive such gifts for others. It is through this love that each person brings unity to his or her fragmented personality. Through this love, people touch the full personhood in others and purify the full personhood in themselves.
--David Brooks,
Personalism: The Philosophy We Need,
New York Times, June 14, 2018
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