Hello, I am Omninscience, I come from distant lands and wonder the world with a floating mind that I ride on. I started reading a book by C.S Lewis called, "Problems of Pain" and I'm having trouble understanding a few sentence or paragraphs here and there, but I'll start with the first one for today. I also hope this can be my thread to come back to everytime I have a question and hoping you people can answer.
"There is no reason to suppose that self-consciousness, the recognition of a creature by it self as a 'self', can exist except in contrast with an 'other', a something which is not the self. It is against an environment and preferably a social environment, an environment of other selves, that the awareness of Myself stands out. This would raise a difficulty about the consciousness of God if we were mere theists: being Christians, we learn from the doctrine of the Blessed Trinity that something analogous to 'society' exist within the Divine being from all eternity - that God is Love, not merely in the sense of being the Platonic form of love, but because, within Him, the concrete reciprocities of love exist before all worlds and are thence derived to the creatures."
if anyone can, put into words commenting along side each sentence of the quote.
many thanks to anyone who can answer well help me move on and continue reading the book, cause I don't continue unless I understand every written word before I move to the next point.