Love, Goodness, and Togetherness
摘要
Continuing the theme of Chap. 8, this chapter concludes the book with a discussion of the profound yet at times obscure moral thought of Raimond Gaita. Recounting his autobiographical anecdote of an encounter with a compassionate nun, the first section interrogates Gaita’s notion of saintly love. The second section critically discusses Gaita’s idea, at times more prominent than at others, that there are socio-historically constituted limits to what is lovable. Rejecting the idea and the (possible) reasons why Gaita endorses it, the third section explores another way of thinking about what it may mean to be inspired by the goodness one witnesses. The concluding section articulates this alternative understanding in terms of the goodness of loving togetherness.