applied contemporary idea archaeology

applied contemporary idea archaeology – studying those ideas from the past still living in the present

inner strings

fashions' strings
traditional, customary inner strings

penultimate social psychology

asleep in societal traditions and customs

archaeology of ideas

archaeologist of ideas in history

the theatre outside the Chekhov

a crowd flowed over Khamergerski Lane
beside the famous Moscow Art Theater...

were the actors outside any more real and unpredictable than that of those in?

massed emotions

most seem quite content to rant their political positions before or without learning,
not their vehemently rejected imbecilic enemies facts,
but their own.

Dante's Divine Comedy in Leibnitz's Théodicée?

Leibnitz does not consider Dante's Comedy in his Théodicée

though that is Dante's "response" to the "problem of theodicy"

and shows the philosophically abstract character of Leibnitz's consideration of it

Fukushima's continuing disaster for us all

out of sight, out of mind?
doesn't quite work that way with radioactive particles...
at least not for the body

αγνώθι σεαυτόν and Fukushima again

the ongoing disaster at Fukushima shows avoiding mankind how it is incapable to make such serious decisions and developments as affect centuries if not millennia.

when Marx's Dialectic was out

Disney's Mickey came in
; )

Mickey Mouse in Moscow Metro

a small stuffed mickey mouse on the lap of a 4 year old girl in sitting in the wagon
both grandparents dotting and controlling besides her
from the completely passive social level of society
from Disney in 1928 to Moscow in 2014
a current culture that for the world's sleeping
degrees of sleep

immature beauties in Moscow

many young woman in Moscow whose real beauty surpasses their maturity by 10-15 years

smart travel to our own country

as a smart traveler studies the history of the country to which he will travel

so should one study the history of the one in which we travail

beyond "the pillars of Kant"

the ne plus ultra of the pillars of Hercules

explorers: Prince Henry, Dias, Columbus, da Gama, Magellan, et al

the pillars of Kant

explorers Hamann, Hegel, Goethe, Blake, Coleridge, Steiner,...Leary, Castaneda, et al

the obstacle course to God

theological studies

Jefferson contra Augustine

two visions of human purpose

               fallen, repenting sin              naturally pursuing happiness

poor, lost poetry

one problem with and for poetry is the lack of a common understanding of the "real world"

or the real in the world

the other is the problem -- little enough conscious amidst all the clutter and confusion -- of the "inner world", aka self, aka person

Lethe

a very powerful, popular amnesiac

morality untouched by emotion?

Matthew Arnold: religion as morality touched by emotion
Immanuel Kant: religion as morality untouched by emotion

Augustine and Goethe

needed: a comparison of their ideas of man's origin, life and goals would be very clarifying

Self-Actualization medications -- Maslow's or Dante's

Maslow's system may cause a light-headed, somewhat euphoric state of self-actualization, and is contraindicated for use by criminals and other individuals with vicious tendencies.

Recommended: one part Maslow, two parts Dante.

necessary external controls

for what % of the population of any society are external laws a necessity for civilized conditions to prevail?

That's just incredible!

"the belief in God" must now be that somehow in all of mankind's trivial and terrible

there is yet some barely credible meaning

equality of the other-directed?

what meaning and social reality can political equality have in and for the many dormant and passive...
the other-directed -- be they mass or middle-class?