"In the beginning of these considerations on the place of political philosophy in the structure of reality, I cited (...) a passage from Leo Strauss in which he pointed out that of its very nature, the city looks not to laws that it can unmake but to those it cannot, because man did not make himself to be man. The city must transcend itself, or perhaps better, the substantial beings among whom the city is a relation have ends that go through and beyond the political. In a further passage, I cited Catherine Pickstock, in a remarkable book pointing to, as she puts it in her sub-title, the "liturgical consummation of philosophy" (...) Pickstock intimates that human consciousness cannot be guaranteed by ideological constructs or by "autonomous self-pressence", the only alternatives available in an "immanentist" world, as she puts it. It can be grounded only by a "redemptive" return of "doxological dispossession", caused by a proper human response to the transcendent, a response that implies that man does not "make" his own salvation".
— SCHALL, James V., Roman Catholic Political Philosophy, chap. 2, VI
