Central what I am trying to say is this, I think:
Truth cannot be separated from goodness and beauty. They are three faces of the same thing.
If I knew more von Balthasar I would be able to say more about this.
And now a brief patchwork of quotes:
In modern scholarship, "analytic philosophers had defined the central task of philosophy as that of deciphering the meaning of key expressions in both everyday and scientific language" -Alasdair MacIntyre
Compared to a more full understanding...
"In every truth there is something more than we would have expected, in the love that we receive there is always an element that surprises us. We should never cease to marvel at these things."
-Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate
"The intelligence only grows and bears fruit in joy. The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.... It is the part played by joy in our studies that makes of them a preparation for spiritual life, for desire directed toward God is the only power capable of raising the soul. "
-Simone Weil, Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies to Love God
“Poetic knowledge does not in itself tend toward love, any more, for that matter, than scientific knowledge; but… all knowledge which is not finally turned toward loving is by that very fact a source of death.”
-Raïssa Maritain, The Situation of Poetry
No conclusions, just a few more thoughts.
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