What I mean is “what I’ve developed recently is in the same general direction of what they had”, not “my affective disposition is identical with that of MLK’s.” I don’t have strong views how exactly how close the similarity is, I just know that I’m much further in that direction than I was before.
I don’t personally know that MLK had this specific quality. I’ve made explicit what you have implied, that he did. Even if he did have it, I don’t think you could reduce his general capacity for love to this one idea, hence “part of.”
But to avoid apparent arrogance, perhaps the first sentence of the second-to-last paragraph might be written like so.
“This perspective I’m developing is part of what gave Martin Luther King the capacity to feel universal love and compassion.”
Thanks, this is fine.
What I mean is “what I’ve developed recently is in the same general direction of what they had”, not “my affective disposition is identical with that of MLK’s.” I don’t have strong views how exactly how close the similarity is, I just know that I’m much further in that direction than I was before.
I don’t personally know that MLK had this specific quality. I’ve made explicit what you have implied, that he did. Even if he did have it, I don’t think you could reduce his general capacity for love to this one idea, hence “part of.” But to avoid apparent arrogance, perhaps the first sentence of the second-to-last paragraph might be written like so.
“This perspective I’m developing is part of what gave Martin Luther King the capacity to feel universal love and compassion.”
Thanks.