Josef Pieper writes about strenuous effort versus free spontaneity in living the virtuous life with God: The strain of self-mastery, which for us countrymen of Kant is inseparable from any concept of upbringing and moderation and is generally tied to and fused with the concept of virtue, is an accompanying phenomenon only of less perfect …
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Matthew Erickson 