The Path Before Us, with Matthew Lee Anderson

The Path Before Us, with Matthew Lee Anderson

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#526: The Body's Freedom (TOB #15)

#526: The Body's Freedom (TOB #15)

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Being a “person” means, in one sense, having the freedom to act above and beyond the necessity of our animal impulses or mechanisms of our biology. Freedom is an essential component of gift-giving: so long as we are under compulsion, we do not give gifts. In living “naked without shame,” the male and female live together in freedom: their happiness is c…

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