Question

Are you familiar with the thought of Akiva Ernst Simon?
In his article on the second innocence, Simon presents an interesting idea: a child’s faith is pure and innocent, but afterward comes growing up, in which the child acquires understanding and knowledge in school and at university, and that innocence is cracked, or broken. But that is not the final word, because one can suggest an additional, more mature stage, in which a person integrates the innocence of childhood with the understanding of adulthood, and that is the “second innocence.”
I thought of you when I read this. You too, in Truth and Unstable, present the third stage in the process of maturation.