Adam Rook

In my writing, I'm hoping to bring the underlying meaning and value of our lives and relationships more to light, to clarify them in their significance and in how our approach of them makes every difference. This concerns the development of our capacity for self-understanding and mutual understanding, our ability to see ourselves within the singular context of each person’s life narrative, and growth in loving each person as deeply as possible.

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So far, in my essays The Potential of the Human Heart and Right Relationship With Life, my focus has been on a foundational understanding of morality and human value – our basic conceptualization of what these things are, which informs our regard towards people and subsequent moral questions. 

 

My hope is to establish a preliminary view of humanity in these respects that accommodates otherwise divergent beliefs, particularly whether theist or non-theist. Precisely as part of having my own thought informed by a Catholic worldview, I believe humanity causes itself needless strife and harm by failing to better appreciate our common human context. Through a constant return to and affirmation of human value, as founded and expressed in love and goodness, I plan in the future to explore specific moral questions and other areas of human life.

 

​I encourage a slow and thoughtful reading of this material, contra to the ways we’ve become accustomed to diluting our time through superficial engagement with content (for more on this, see my article about social media). The subject matter is generally the hard-to-put-into-words stuff of meaning and significance, and I offer my thoughts as a vehicle for reflection in whatever way they may interface with other’s views and experience, as something of a series of open letters to humanity about humanity.​