CATH 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: A Reminder, John Donne
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11 the religious sense: the experience of the sign. Wit: how is she reasonable, conversation with nurse vs. not wanting to hear john donne poems at end. If you are surprised, the questions arise in you. Those aspect of reality are essential for our vocation our calling in life: the path we take is marked out for us (calvinism) Some aspect of reality jumps out as us and makes an impression. The reasonable path: this motion is toward a search for something else. When you meet someone and you are touched by them you want to know their mystery. Want to know more about that person. There is a meaning we are not even aware of: we do(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) (cid:449)hat the sig(cid:374) is (cid:396)efe(cid:396)(cid:396)i(cid:374)g us to (cid:271)ut (cid:449)e (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)e (cid:373)o(cid:396)e a(cid:449)a(cid:396)e of the need when it becomes satisfied. The different aspects we see in the world are signs: these signs are reality.