Sociosopher

An individual who attempts to gain real, living insight, understanding and wisdom about human society.
Sociosophy - wisdom of society

Nietzsche contra Emerson

in mid May 1832 Emerson wrote in his journal:
"I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos."

Nietzsche would later say "Abyss".

"I am proud to be..."

pride in being a member of some group: racial, ethnic, religious, national, sexual,...has about as much substance, seriousness and meaning as saying "I am proud to be a human being".
a person so proud has done little to nothing for this status, and it is often just a shallow, thoughtless social substitute for those who cant be proud of their individual acts

individualities?

most are more accurately dividuals, mutualities

Zuckerberg and the Crystal Palace

Zuckerberg's realistic kid-idealism of connecting the entire world and all of humanity via/with the internet is the direct -- if naive, unconscious and unreflective -- continuation of the summery Crystal Palace of which Dostoyevsky wrote his winter impressions.

asleeping in time

most are unconsciously asleep in mundane time
or...
mundanely asleeping in time

musical pollution

most commercial advertising pollutes the air and the human psyche by the music it ab-uses

traveling in history

traveling in History
travailing in History
Grand Tours in History
explorations in History

returning more deeply and broadly experienced, knowledgeable and wisened

emotion map

an anthropography of emotions:
a study of which emotions, where, when, to what degree lead men and women
from fear through ecstasy

Dante beyond Jefferson ...and the pursuits of...

"...that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,..."

the pursuit of Knowledge

the pursuit of Wisdom

the pursuit of Truth

the pursuit of "God"

the politics of homo insapiens!

anyone who looks for rational human action after seeing today's morass of confronting emotions, ill- or non-informed opinions and positions, of self- and other-deception, willful and unaware ignorance, etc etc dominate politics, news reporting, commentary, "discussion", etc...
cannot but realistically give up hope of expecting good decisions...

Nietzsche to Dante

Nietzsche to Dante:
'actually it was a tragedy'

Nietzsche at the mouth of the Cave

looking outside the Cave, Nietzsche saw nothing

nature vs nuture?

for most humans, nurture has the force of nature

anthroposophical myth mists

anthroposophists live, think and have their being inside of a misty mythic history

most people are a social environment

the top secularist acronym

OMnoG!

echoes from Mt. Sinai

the thunder atop Mount Sinai has echoed through ages
growing  f  a   i    n     t      e       r  and f    a    .     .       .

Nietzsche's profs?

Nietzsche was a seeker
his professors most decidedly were not

who but few remember their names and fames now?

Augustine's adolescence

"Adam made me chunk those pears!"

Goethe on Augustine?

it would be historically, intellectually and "spiritually" revealing to know just what Goethe thought of Augustine, his Confessions, and doctrine of "original sin"

btw...

hello to the very few readers..
wherever and whoever you are.

the meanings of books

every book is a Bible, however uninspired/ing

emotion stampedes

wild emotional reactions of the herds to a cartoon

three cups

the cup in an Athenian prison

the "cup" at Gethsemane

the cup in a high-vaulted Gothic chamber at night

jihadist malpractice

jihadists externalize what should be internal jihad against evil.

mass unexamined naturalism

the pervasive common unconscious mentality in which most Americans "live, move and have their being"...

Die Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der blossen Vernunft?

Die Religion ausserhalb der Grenzen der blossen Vernunft.

Kant on our Cave

Kant claimed that the tunnel out of the Cave is too slippery to ascend