Relationships & Family
Philosophy Professor Says He Fell in Love with Wife Again After Her Death
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"The last view I had of my wife in the nursing home about an hour after she died, I fell in love with her again. Here is a wasted, emaciated, wrinkled, suffering body. It's as beautiful as a crucifix. Because that body ain't gonna last, but the soul is."
Dr. Peter Kreeft, a Boston College philosophy professor, recounted falling in love with his wife again upon seeing her body an hour after her death in a nursing home. Speaking on the Daily Wire show Pints with Aquinas, Kreeft argued that true marital love must be rooted in loving the soul rather than the body, as physical beauty fades but the soul endures. The emotional moment was cited by Ben Shapiro as exemplifying Western civilization's emphasis on the inherent value of the individual soul.
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