
Love and the Postmodern Predicament with D. C. Schindler
The Meaning Code
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The Relationship Between Wonder and Happiness
GK Chester says that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. What we know is always an opening into greater, greater desire to know through beauty. The real growth is a beginning in imperfect knowledge which is the same as imperfect wonder. And the progression is to greater and greater knowledge that is coincident with greater and greater wonder. So there is a movement from the imperfect to the perfect but it's not from wonder to knowledge it's imperfect wonder and imperfect knowledge that enters into ever more perfect knowledge and wonder.
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