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2026
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18763831 |
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- <p><span><span> </span>This reflection arises from encountering personal and intellectual crossroads during reflection about the concept of graduality. Much of my philosophical formation has been shaped by ancient Greek thinkers such as Plato and Aristotle. Their analyses of love, desire, friendship, and the good life remain remarkably sharp. At the same time, as I engage more deeply with Christian theology and the Catholic magisterium, I notice something important. The Church does not simply repeat Greek philosophy. It receives it with gratitude, but also corrects it, transforms it, and brings it to fulfillment in Christ.</span></p> <p><span><span> </span>Plato’s <em>scala amoris</em> (ladder of love), when taken alongside Pope Francis’ teaching on the “law of graduality” and Karl Rahner’s notion of a “gradual ascent to Christian perfection,” seems to show how Christian grace confirms, purifies, and radicalizes philosophical structures of ascent. Yet I do not meet these ideas only in books. I read Plato’s <em>Symposium</em> in a Paris classroom and <em>Amoris laetitia</em> in a Jesuit community that carries stories of Indian families, caste wounds, and fragile faith. When I place all this on the table of the Examen, I find myself asking: how does the ladder look when it passes through the Principle and Foundation and through concrete mission among the poor, not only through conceptual analysis?</span></p>