But hold up for a minute: who is this “we” that’s always turning up in
critical writing? We is an escape hatch. We is cheap. We is a way of simultaneously sloughing off personal responsibility and taking on the mantle of easy authority. It’s the voice of the middlebrow male critic, the one who truly believes he knows how everyone else should think. We is corrupt. We is make-believe. The real question is this: can I love the art but hate the artist? Can you?
When I say “we,” I mean I. I mean you.
“Kötü bir anıyı unutmanın en iyi yolu güzel bir tanesiyle değişmektir.”
Martin reigned because of the council’s action. Yet as soon as he was pope, he repudiated all acts of the council, except the one by which he ruled. The legal mind of the Roman church had never encountered so great a contradiction not of theory but of practice. Martin had good reason to deny the work of the council, for it raised an important question: Who is greater, a general council that creates the pope, or the pope who claims supremacy over councils?
'Men love the idea of women.
They love the question about a woman. The mystery yet to be solved.
Western Christians are inclined to understand their fundamental relationship with God in legal terms. The primary problem is guilt from sin, a legal concept, and how a person’s guilt can be addressed to gain salvation. Roman Catholicism, in particular, elaborated this idea through its system of justification through confession, penance, and absolution. Later, Protestants and Catholics divided over the answers to this question, but not the question itself.
