Tonight Dostoevsky and Hannah Arendt were conversation partners in a lecture seeking to establish agapaic love as unconditional love that wills the existence of the other, for no inherent reason of worth. This involved some hard work in bringing unconditional love into relation with evil, especially humanly contrived and with ruinous consequences.
These are the most rewarding Gifford lectures I have attended in Aberdeen over the past several series. Worth noting the attendance each night has not fallen – that's quite a persuasive indicator of audience engagement with a lecturer who communicates well both in words and in a winsome personality at ease with questions and questioners. An excellent use of an early evening
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