Morality comes in two forms, dubbed Sittlichkeit and Moralitat by Hegel. One learns it in the same way one learns to speak a first language. As I do not review the rules of English grammar and syntax before I speak my native tongue, so also I do not (most of the time) pause to review a set of moral rules before acting. This sort of moral learning—immersion in a way of life—cannot be transmitted in a college classroom, though we may hope to presuppose it there. ...There is also a different, and rather more academic, understanding of morality as the reflective and critical application of principles and rules, the careful delineation of different virtues and vices. One can provide a certain academic training in that—examining various theories and arguments for their strengths and weaknesses. No one learns to speak his native tongue this way, though we might take this approach to learning a language developed for a specific purpose. ...The moral life of any person or people must, of course, somehow include both forms of morality. The first is all habit, the second all reflection. Neither, taken by itself, could possibly be adequate.
Nayeon, stripped suddenly of her pretenses, clung to him, burying her white face in his coat sleeve, weeping bitterly, helplessly, grievously, for the sad waste of the irrevocable months-- the immortal hours of love that might never be relieved, the great evil of forgetfulness and indifference that could never be righted now. Like a child she was grateful for his caress, and his heart twisted in him like a wild and broken rope, and he kept mumbling:
'It's all right! It's all right. It's all right.' -- knowing that it was not, could never be, all right.
'If I had known. Jungkook, if I had known,' she wept.
'Oh, it's all right.'
As darkness came upon the gray wet day, Nayeon alone seemed consistently hopeful. Trembling with exacerbated nerves, she was ironically polite when their bodies touched. Jungkook dozed that night, waking and sleeping by starts, moaning petulantly, detached, vaguely aware of the meaning of her "If I had known".
