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Rehabilitating the Human Heart

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This implies that the heart has been neglected

Underrated

Most philosophers have placed emphasis on rationality:

Intellect and Will

What about the feeling life?

Rooted in the body

Erratic

Ungovernable

Most philosophers have felt the Intellect and Will are there to reign them in

They subscribe value to only these two aspects of the person

Neglecting the third: the Heart

A fuller picture of the person includes all 3

Intellect | Will | Heart

Evidence: The Good Samaritan

Approaching the injured

He understands with his Intellect the right thing to do

He commits himself with his Will to doing it

Suppose he acts out of a sense of duty

But his heart is not involved in the helping

There is a tremendous difference between the Samaritan who helps only out of a sense of duty and the ‘Good’ Samaritan who is also moved by compassion

The Good Samaritan embodies love of neighbor through compassion

Only the Good Samaritan is fully present to the injured man

The Samaritan who acts just out of duty is holding something back from the injured man

He acts in such a way as not to be in the act of helping with his whole being

This significance of acting with the ‘whole being’ is the contribution of heartfelt compassion, of the one acting as a whole person, with the Heart

Not merely a Samaritan, but a ‘Good Samaritan’

Notes on John Crosby

Hildebrand on the Heart

2020 Summer Seminar, Session 2

Hildebrand Project

#Personalism #affective #dietrich von hildebrand #John crosby

A Book of Insects. Written by Charles Paul May. Illustrated by John Crosby. 1972.

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Television critic John Crosby trashed Betty White in 1954.

"Sooner or later I knew I'd have to turn my attention to Betty White, a comparative newcomer who has mushroomed almost overnight into national prominence," wrote Crosby. "Miss White is now the star of a filmed show called "Life With Elizabeth," which is syndicated to 87 stations and can hardly be avoided in any major city … Miss White plays the wholesome side of the street for all it's worth. While I rather hesitate to come out against wholesomeness, I think there are limits and I think Miss White transgresses beyond - well, we won't pursue that thought any further...

"Miss White is dimpled, fully dressed and well-upholstered. She lives with her mother, loves dogs, has a nickname of Betz, and does her own hair which looks like - well we won't pursue that thought any further either...

"Life With Elizabeth is promulgated by Guild Films, which also conducts The Affairs of Liberace, (that outfit is certainly going to have a lot answer for in the hereafter) …

"Life With Elizabeth revolves - to quote a press release "around the spontaneous antics of a typical young American family … They are the kind of persons one welcomes into the home as delightful neighbors." Well, maybe. On this one, Miss White exhibits her dimples, winks at the camera, and outwits her husband - a stupid played by Del Moore - three times on every half hour in what is almost a comic strip technique of TV comedy...

"As for the jokes: "She married an X-ray specialist." "I wonder what he sees in her."

"But it's all, as I remarked earlier, terribly wholesome. In fact, I suspect that if I took a bite out of Miss White I'd absorb enough Vitamin B to last all winter. And she has great warmth and charm, so much that she has been described as "TV darling of 2,000,000 fans on the West Coast." And now, if you'll pardon me, I'm off to stare at Jane Russell and see if some of this wholesomeness will wash off."

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