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Elizabeth Newman:

All education is ultimately formation in love of something. As Augustine states, “Whether for good or for evil, each man lives by his love.” Therefore, we need to ask, what kind of love does our politics produce? Is it the Kantian “good” of autonomously achieving freedom and rationality? Is is the utilitarian “good” that makes desire of satisfaction central? Is it the “good” of relativism (we each choose our own good) that can quickly degenerate into indifference? In the words of Catholic philosopher Josef Pieper, “The true antithesis of love is not hate but despairing indifference, the feeling that nothing is important.”