imago dei?

or more realistically?

imago simia

Herman's "Cave and Light" conceived in the cave

Arthur Herman's Cave and Light was written by a somewhat conscious cave-dweller, for unconscious cave-dwellers

but it is a cave-dweller's comprehension of the cave, light and sun

digital vs literary self-reflections in Moscow

one might have additional reason to be somewhat more hopeful for Russia's future did fewer younger generation women seek their images in their cameras than their history's literature

vita contemplativa in Moscow?

a vita contemplativa amidst Moscow's multi-million-fold, multifarious vita activa is realistically, but truly, irrelevant

(as "Harry Haller" similarly knew)

augustine and nietzsche sub specie...

Augustine seeks in his life and writings to make sense of his life, world and time sub specie dei

Nietzsche sub specie nihil

truth or academics

en route to truth...

captured by knowledge institutionalized

Kerouac's "Grand Trip"?

is Kerouac's road-trip and/or its account to be judged great...

if compared to that of Herodotus, Pausanias, Marco Polo,...

Grand Tourists

Goethe fleeing Weimar in Italy

Bayard Taylor afoot in Europe

the daemonic Richard Burton...

and if not in his life on the road

then in his inner travail with these predecessors?

seems he rather traveled lite

departments of phobosophy?

philosophy                                    phobosophy/sophophobia

hell yeah!

Was Voltaire not wrong about God needing be invented...

rather hell

"the (all-too-human) Humanities"

the "Humanities departments" have for decades not themselves much merited any lingering aura of authority they still may have been imagined to bear from their distant ancestors Religion and Philosophy

what is guilty?

if it is pathetic to blame "God" for human brutalities
so it is likely not essentially true -- though man is en masse a passive creature -- to blame materialism and atheism for human atrocities

what does it mean?

there would be no problem with "meaning" were man merely advanced ape

a totally meaningless world would be indescribable

the problem of meaning is man's

the world, the entire universe has meaning,
if only man's

the ultimate "meta-narrative" ?

be they protests, rejections, scepticisms, condemnations,...

moral and/or intellectual

emotional and/or erudite

Faustian and/or purely scholarly

even anti-narratives and anti-meta-narratives are sub specie aeternitatis*

(*be that only filled by a ?)

on the roads to Damascus and Vincennes

compare the experiences on the roads, of Paul and Rousseau

abstractly stated: their contexts, experiences, confrontations, anthropologies, conclusions

e.g.

against the Old Adam for the New

against the Civic for the Natural

individualism*?

most are less indivisible than they are part and parcel of each other
of the group
not individuals

*individual (adj.) early 15c., "one and indivisible" (with reference to the Trinity), from Medieval Latin individualis, from Latin individuus "indivisible," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + dividuus "divisible," from dividere "divide" (see divide). Not common before c.1600 and the 15c. usage might be isolated. Sense of "single, separate" is 1610s; meaning "intended for one person" is from 1889.

cf. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=individual