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Not Compatible With Life, Arthur Lang

Arthur Lang

Novelties Compassion Compassion, like the concept of good, is not means to something else. It simply exists. It exists between man and man, parent and child, and between God and man. The compassion between parent and child correlates to the compassion between God and man. We pray that God has compassion for us as a parent has compassion for a child. This correlation is the source of the conception of the other man as the fellow man, someone worthy of compassion. Compassion is the recognition of moral being. It is the substantiation of another, the recognition of his or her …