"The Agent of Truth on the Margin of the World" | Fr. James V.
Schall, S.J. | June 20, 2008 | Ignatius Insight"The Agent of
Truth on the Margin of the World" | Fr. James V. Schall, S.J. |
June 20, 2008 | Ignatius Insight    "Strictly speaking, nothing
more than 'It is snowing' is said about the world when I say 'I
know it is snowing,' but something new is said in another
dimension on the margin of the world, and specifically on this
particular edge that is me as an agent of truth...." -- Robert
Sokolowski [2]   Let me begin with the two above-cited passages.
The first tells us that incorporating intelligence into his life
explains what a rational being is. He is a being who knows what
is not himself. He personally is the one who knows and delights
in knowing. He is a being whose knowing is metaphysical, is of
what is. Knowing what is not simply the mind of the knower
really occurs. Moreover, each person who ever existed, in a
felicitous phrase, stands at the "edge of the world." As it
were, I am myself the "e