Walker Percy's anthropology

I've been carping for more than a decade here at MOJ about what I see as the central importance of Christian moral anthropology to the "Law and Catholic Social Thought" thing.  Here's another little gem from Walker Percy (taken from a 1986 interview):

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INTERVIEWER

Could you tell me how you feel about your inspiring beliefs, how faithful you have remained to them?

PERCY

If you mean, am I still a Catholic, the answer is yes. The main difference after thirty-five years is that my belief is less self-conscious, less ideological, less polemical. My ideal is Thomas More, an English Catholic—a peculiar breed nowadays—who wore his faith with grace, merriment, and a certain wryness. Incidentally, I reincarnated him again in my new novel and I’m sorry to say he has fallen upon hard times; he is a far cry from the saint, drinks too much, and watches reruns ofM*A*S*H on tv.

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INTERVIEWER

Is it possible to define your Catholic existentialism in a few sentences?

PERCY

I suppose I would prefer to describe it as a certain view of man, an anthropology, if you like; of man as wayfarer, in a rather conscious contrast to prevailing views of man as organism, as encultured creature, as consumer, Marxist, as subject to such and such a scientific or psychological understanding—all of which he is, but not entirely. It is the “not entirely” I’m interested in—like the man Kierkegaard described who read Hegel, understood himself and the universe perfectly by noon, but then had the problem of living out the rest of the day. It, my “anthropology,” has been expressed better in an earlier, more traditional language—e.g., scriptural: man born to trouble as the sparks fly up; Gabriel Marcel’s Homo viator.