gnostic vs agnostic

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the lesson in human psychology 2016

can an intelligent one have observed Americans 2016 and yet still hold the notion homo sapiens?

Goethe's patria?

JvG encountered the problem of loyalty rarher than patriotism...
to which patria was Goethe devoted?

Nietzsche at Christmas?

did Nietzsche keep some nostalgia for Christmas music?

"Ein jeder sieht, was...

"Ein jeder sieht, was er im Herzen trägt." (Faust, Vorspiel auf dem Theater, l. 147.)

                                      oder wie wenig

                                                oder viel.

Nietzsche and the US Presidential Election

"all too human"

-cracies

is it clear that democracy is more benevolent than autocracy?
depends on the demos, or autocrat

Faust in Concord?

not all of even the best need(ed) such rarified fare

forever and ever?

humanly unspeakable

suicide:

self-medicating euthanasia?

"Make yourself necessary to the world..."

and -- RWE notwithstanding -- it may well thank you with ignorant or erudite indifference

Sartre vs ...

...Dante
Nausea vs The Comedy

existentialism at risk

that which had been of an internal risk
is recently conceived externally

the most interesting work in the world?

being a discoverer of the "ideas" by which it unconsciously "lives, moves, and has its being"

the demand for equality...

is the requirement of justice in this world

"evil" in Concord?

surely one of the greatest inadequacies that came "from Concord"
is an inadequate comprehension of evil
a cacosophy

creedally

rather than once upon a time seeing the world and life via creeds
we need via life and world write our timely creeds

Faust's limitless striving contra...

Alyosha's submission?

cacothanasia of ideas?

the mortification of ideas?

"scholars"?

who hide their selves inside their knowledge?

historical consciousness

to stand conscious of and consciously in the history of the present

again: self-knowledge?

more common is self-befogment

knowledge as end?

or means?
to higher ends

RWE: "the sun shines also for us"?

through clouds
upon war and righteous cruelty
and devastations...

individualities?

more like dividualities

Imago dei?

we may not be created in the image of God
but we are a creature who long imagined we were

the middle-class life...

obscures by its mundane (pre)occupations questions of world, time, man

What hath God wrought?

the loss of the wrathful vertical?

pop manichaeism?

populist manichaeism

Downtown Crossing?

...of hundreds of little-related lives

Dante vs Emerson

compare Emerson's bio, anthropology and "cosmos" to Dante's

the main human problem?

it does not recognize how foolish it is

uncommunity

proximities of separate lives

out of time

an epidemia of demi-conscious mundane atemporality

escape!

the conscious need to escape mundane time

Und leider auch Theologie...

Und leider immer noch auch Theologie...

independence

to speak in and of "the first person"

it took decades to reach knowledgably leaving the respected-accepted opinions of others on the Sense(s) of Man in the World

aside

a "Steppenwolf" in Concord...

...would only need to growl once during the single visit

CNNical

CNN news is mainly gossip
program hosts paid gossips

Steppenwolves...

live at the inner edges

author event review: The Big Picture, by Sean Carroll

the author assumes that the meaningless, one-way universe
comes by chance to correct consciousness in him and his book

the real kingdom of philosophers...

is (also) not of this world

no matter what many may think

Arendt, evil and conscience

as I said not long ago after a lecture on Arendt and evil at the Center for European Studies
"conscience" is not a fact or a solution...
it is a test

the great goal of the times?

a (unreflective) blithe naturalism

errand into the wilderness?

As per Nietzsche, et al:
                                      errand into nothingness...

PCed "history"

popular now:
a moral(istic) ahistorical critique and "correction" of historical events

Chomsky and Berwick at 1st Parish Church Cambridge

purely conjectural logogony, psychogony

are these the best "scientists" of language?
flimsy, unconvincing reasoning by Berwick
not a speaker, nor really humorous, though he tried to be in a cliche kind of way
"abstract" speculative conclusions
science at its best worst?

the two Kingdoms of "embattled farmers"

important to know not only what the poetically "embattled farmers" of Concord and Lexington thought of their King George III (and his representatives, laws and policies) of this world, but of the King (and His) not of this world

the problem is purely academic?

the main problem with a university education
is that it has so little life experience

Divine intervention?

Divine non-intervention is the problem.

sinners in the hands of a

loving?
absent?
              "God"

nation with the soul of a church?

or soul with the nation as a church?

Errand in to the wllderness?

forgotten purpose
long ago

elementals at Harvard Div School?

hardly.
as centennials of lectures by Steiner pass by
it is anachronistically late for the vague mythic concepts by those "anthroposophists" "lecturing" to a 'spirit and sustainable ag' conference on "elementals" to be imagined -- or taken -- as serious.
but as no one else seemed dismayed or annoyed...
I left.

Steiner and Tolkien

Christianity as mystical fact
Christianity as mythical fact

sub specie ??

the mind and lectures in this region of learning, even about "religious topics", are given sub specie scientiae
not aeternitatis

not even sub specie ?

the heliological proof of God

the sunrise-sunset proof of the existence of God
more aptly called the helioaesthetic proof of God's existence
popular, Romantic
eg.:

academia is

a seriously-limiting mental condition for most trained by and in it

Goodbye God?

Goodbye: salutation in parting, also goodbye, good bye, good-by, 1590s, from godbwye (1570s), a contraction of God be with ye (late 14c.)

PS Replaced by Good Buy?

deicide in the market?

deicide as diagnosed by Nietzsche's madman in the market?

or blithe indifference?

RIP American Antisopher

the passing of the American "philosopher" Hilary Putnam is in reality closer to the death of an antisopher (with no personal disparagement intended)

PHIL 101: philosophy is not love of R/reason

a lecture last night by a well-known, well-published author "philosopher" was such a confused, chaotic "mess" that, apparently, the basic requires restating:
philosophy is about wisdom of being in the world, not intelligent (chaotic or clear) reasoning within academia

the Bible as magic mirror?

far in space from the the Bible Belt (Mencken) and in time from Higher Criticism, two sincere women talking nearby -- one the Biblically-oriented divorce counselor -- are attempting to understand, and approach resolution of, a divorce by eg employing specific passages of the Bible and what God and moral qualms suggest

manly?

manners dominating the man

Huxley < = > Orwell

Huxley warned of heaven, Orwell warned of Hell

the myths we dream by

most live in what one could clearly describe as lingering religious/philosophical fogs

theographies

theologians write theogonies, theodices and theographies that help explain and console their own biographies

marionettes of doctrines

most Christians live as if suspended inside by their beliefs

philosophy of history?

better and deeper an ontosophy

Bronson Alcott's "Higher Criticism" is...

child's play

Hobbes in Shasta?

compare the idea of the original state of man of Hobbes to "new agers" in eg Mt. Shasta.

objective scientists?

"scientists" are all too hunan too
as is their science, let them claim whar they will

endless scholarship?

important to evaluate:
what is the purpose, the "ends", of erudite scholarship
if any?
or are the structures not all surrounded by protective mists?

inner events

the most interesting "events" of late -- real insights into our human story -- have occurred while attending discovered books

enlightening comparative bios

compare Calvin and Emerson on "God", man, world and life
if historians and scholars of ideas were trying to find themselves rather than pursue their careers, this would already have been done

Imago...?

imago dei
imago Monod
imago Hawking
...

Tillich contra Schopenhauer

the courage to be
the courage to not

Buber contra Nietzsche

I - Thou
I -

bibliophila?

bibliophobia?

not of this world?

nationalisms are "of this world"