He doesn't need to. We need to. But our neediness goes together with our inability to make any progress at it. A double defect: need and inability. The truth we need we cannot acquire by our own efforts. It is this fact that motivates some philosophers to consider the possibility of divine revelation. Can they raise the question of revelation without leaving Athens? Can they show the need for, and the possibility of, divine revelation without ceasing to be philosophers? If I understand Maurice Blondel, that was his project.
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