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This major Orthodox contribution to the study of ethics focuses on hypostasis, or “person,” not only as presented in the theology of the Greek Fathers, but also as it is experienced in the worship, ascetical life, and art of the Orthodox Church. In this perspective, morality is seen not as “an objective measure for evaluating character and behavior, but the dynamic response of personal freedom to...

of my existential failure, my inability to transcend my natural will which has come to be identified with the self-defence of the biological and psychological ego. The “other” is hell because he torments me with the revelation that I am tragically condemned to my individual autonomy, incapable of existing free from natural predetermination, loving and loved. Before Sartre, Dostoevsky had defined hell in the same perspective, only more fully: “Hell is the torment of not loving.”4 This definition means
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