Nor is our condition merely tragic, a situation in which we are forced to make unjust decisions because of some code or environment that befalls us. Our situation, rather, is ironic: so many evils are of our own making, and yet so many of those evils are generated by our blinkered virtues and the unconscious shadows of our best intentions. “The evil in human history is regarded as the consequence of man’s wrong use of his unique capacities. The wrong use is always due to some failure to recognize the limits of his capacities of power, wisdom and virtue. Man is an ironic creature because he
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