en route to truth...
captured by knowledge institutionalized
Monday, April 7, 2014
Sunday, April 6, 2014
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
Friday, April 4, 2014
"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
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
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
Thursday, April 3, 2014
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 ?)
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
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
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
individualism*?
most are less indivisible than they are part and parcel of each other
of the group
not individuals
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.
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