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@philosophiclee In case you're interested in the #Althusser section where he compares Marxism and Spinozism, it's from his famous "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" (1971)
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This week I wrote about Aphrodite and the Hegelian concept of the beautiful soul:
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The discussion in Thomas Mann's Dr Faustus of "hope beyond hopelessness"; the last note fades into silence but is still heard; it vibrates in the soul only.
Because this is where hope is looked for and found in an irredeemably cruel world: only in your own soul.
But how is hope, conceived in this way, anything other than despair? If the world is incapable of offering hope, what is there to hope for? -
"I do not wish to wish these things". Doesn't this basically mean: I wish I was someone other than I am? Eliot seems to wish to efface his own soul so as not to go against what is expected of him
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"I do not wish to wish these things". Doesn't this basically mean: I wish I was someone other than I am? Eliot seems to wish to efface his own soul so as not to go against what is expected of him
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"I do not wish to wish these things". Doesn't this basically mean: I wish I was someone other than I am? Eliot seems to wish to efface his own soul so as not to go against what is expected of him
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The stairs the poet climbs in the 3rd Ash-Wednesday poem are a Purgatory: below he sees a devil in the fetid air, and above a window and a pastoral scene; "I am not worthy" he says, "but speak the word only."
I think we have more "dissembling" here. The poet feels bold enough to speak and yet feels unworthy. He is not telling us, or is not yet able to express, how he really feels about himself and his own creative powers.
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"... And I who am here dissembled / Proffer my deeds to oblivion..."
In the 2nd of Eliot's Ash-Wednesday poems again the theme of resignation after a deed is done; the deeds of mortals are offered up for judgement and then forgotten, just as mortals are to be forgotten once they are gone, after their bones are scattered. The immortality of the soul has nothing to do with the vanity of earthly existence; the human form, now finished with, can remain dissembled
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"Between the idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act / Falls the Shadow" (T. S. Eliot, from "The Hollow Men")
I'm not at all confident that I understand what Eliot meant by these lines, but it seems to me that this is a poem about being stuck in "the shadow;" the whole world becomes a shadow, a dark and grim place, when people have ceased to believe that their ideas can become reality, or that their actions can produce meaningful results.
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"The Fire Sermon" from T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" is like a painting: bleak details of city life with the wide Thames flowing through the middle of it.
I don't know if anyone can relate but some poems just strike me more visually than others
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"A Game of Chess" in T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" presents a world full of chatter and little more. The wind under the door and other people's business needn't occupy our attention and yet they do.
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"And I will show you something different from either / Your shadow at morning striding behind you / Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; / I will show you fear in a handful of dust." (T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land)
Because it's not the past that should trouble us, or the future that should frighten us; it is the present moment which slips through our fingers like sand
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"I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids / sprouting despondently at area gates." (T. S. Eliot, Morning at the Window)
Gates enclose while souls continue to grow; a picture of a world whose rigid boundaries are tragically incompatible with the flourishing of a human soul
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"The conscience of a blackened street / Impatient to assume the world." (T.S. Eliot, Preludes)
The way a street waits silently at night for the morning traffic; the way a writer is, by definition, silent when not writing, waiting for whatever next comes up to be assumed.
Eliot often struggled with his writing, doubting his abilities, so this image of a silent yet impatient street seems very apt
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"I must Create a System, or be enslav'd by another Mans / I will not Reason & Compare: my business is to Create" (William Blake)
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Kindness, patience, and generosity with others because everyone is working out their own destiny in their own way, says Henry Miller.
The first book he wrote was a disaster, and everyone told him he was a terrible writer and should just quit. But his failure was part of the journey.
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I'm reading Mark Fisher today
He suggests that any art worth talking about is already theoretical and so the role of a critic or theorist is not to "judge it or pontificate upon it," but to be an "intensifier" of what is already present in the text
Seems like a version of Deleuze's rule that if you don't love a work of art you have no reason to write about it
Art is always theoretical in the sense that it contains ideas & impressions & it says something
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Today I wrote about William Burroughs, wasps, and writing
https://leewatkins.blog/2024/02/21/friday-21st-february-1997/
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Frederick Beiser: Hegel & Schelling want to show that vitalism is a verifiable theory
"Vitalism" means: nature has will & purpose
Kant had rejected the teleology of vitalism as unverifiable: you can't know the minds & inner purposes of minerals, vegetables, & animals
Why vitalism? Because the mechanistic understanding of nature had led philosophy into an impasse: either minds are mechanistic & not free, or there is dualism & mind is something supernatural
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Goal for today: try to make sense of some Schelling
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Kierkegaard on Schelling on "actuality":
A concept tells us what something is, while knowing something means to know *that* that thing is
You can have a concept without knowledge, a concept of something that does not exist
but you can't know anything if you don't have a concept of it.
For example, when I see a particular plant, I apply the universal concept "plant" to what I see
(I'm reading Kierkagaard's "Notes of Schelling's Berlin Lectures")
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Fate vs. Destiny: The Illusion of Choice and the Truth of Resilience https://visionleon.com/the-fate-destiny-paradox-a-logical-breakdown/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ReviveOldPost #philosophicalleadership #fatevsdestiny #illusionoffreewill #spiritualreflection #resilientmindset
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“Life is hell, and the sweet still night of absolute death is the annihilation of hell.”
—Philipp Mainländer, The Philosophy of Redemption
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#PhilippMainländer #PhilosophicalPessimism #Pessimism #Quotes #Philosophy #life #Ethics -
“Being born is strictly an action that happens to us, and concerning this primary fact we are neither ‘free’ nor ‘responsible’.”
—Julio Cabrera
#Philosophy #PhilosophicalPessimism #AntiNatalism #JulioCabrera
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@wauz @ChattyAvocado Naja, Philosophielehrer:innen?
Aber eigentlich geht es ja sowieso viel mehr um #Herzensbildung - und da, befürchte ich, haben wir sowieso viel zu wenig qualifizierte Personen, die als Lehrer:innen zur Verfügung stehen würden ...
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“The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition of vicious insight allows us a full grasp of the world, all things considered, just as a frigid melancholy grants us full possession of ourselves. We may hide from horror only in the heart of horror.”
—Thomas Ligotti, Noctuary
#pessimism #PhilosophicalPessimism #quotes #philosophy #PhilosophyQuotes #horror #HorrorQuotes
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“Man is a self-conscious nothing.”
―Julius Bahnsen
#Quotes #Philosophy #Pessimism #PhilosophicalPessimism #Pessimist #PessimismQuotes #JuliusBahnsen
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📚🤖 Ah, behold another philosophical soliloquy on AI ethics by someone who couldn't find the "Define Terms" button on their keyboard. Strap in, dear reader, for the riveting tale of why context matters—because who knew dangers could arise when pulling oxygen? 🙄🎭
https://meiert.com/blog/ai-ethics-and-safety/ #AIethics #contextmatters #philosophicaldebate #techhumor #satire #HackerNews #ngated -
📚🤖 Ah, behold another philosophical soliloquy on AI ethics by someone who couldn't find the "Define Terms" button on their keyboard. Strap in, dear reader, for the riveting tale of why context matters—because who knew dangers could arise when pulling oxygen? 🙄🎭
https://meiert.com/blog/ai-ethics-and-safety/ #AIethics #contextmatters #philosophicaldebate #techhumor #satire #HackerNews #ngated
