Salman Rushdie
The Enchantress of Florence (London: Vintage Books, 2009), 402
The Enchantress of Florence (London: Vintage Books, 2009), 402
There was a thing in the emperor [Akbar] that rebelled against all this flummery, for was it not a kind of infantilization of the self to give up one’s power of agency and believe that such power resided outside oneself rather than within? This was also his objection to God, that his existence deprived human beings of the right to form ethical structures by themselves.
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