Abstract
AbstractThis concluding chapter considers what lesson we should draw from the reflections in previous chapters. The ultimate recommendation is to maintain devotion and perhaps sacred values through affirmation and the deepening move. By doing so, we avoid the dangers of fanaticism on the one hand and normative dissipation on the other. But this is inevitably a fragile and precarious state: affirmation can slide into a focus on rejecting what isn’t affirmed, and the deepening move can ossify into rigidity. Only the perpetual quest to maintain a form of existential flexibility, which may require oscillation between deepening and affirmation, can stave off these dangers.
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