Human social life, suggest, magma erupts builds up, speak, fault lines — Christian Smith, a Person?: Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, Moral Good Person

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Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural human capacities meet and grind against and over natural human limitations…. This meeting of powers and limitations produces a creative, dynamic tension and energy that generates and fuels the making of human social life and social structures…. It is real human persons living through the tensions of natural existential contradictions who construct patterned social meanings, interactions, institutions, and structures.

Christian Smith, What Is a Person?: Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up

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