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Just a thought: how is it that we are sculpted, so as to inhabit the material world? Is it—as the Christians would have it—divine providence which has dictated the types of souls which ; and why, then, into such inane and limiting "filth"? Or—as Dennett might have it—is it that very metaphysical "filth" which constitutes our being and gives rise to God? To shift the dialect—is Rilke justified in his portrait of God?
— Jun 09, 2017 03:14PM
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Josh
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Plotinian Forms are a captivating, if tricky to grasp, perspective in which Being emerges from the act of (recursive) self-contemplation.
"If Nature does design these organisms, it must do so by an art which is immediate."
"My contemplation engenders the product of my contemplation... I contemplate, and the lines of bodies come into existence, as if they were issuing forth from me."
What would Darwin think?
— Jun 10, 2017 05:56AM
"If Nature does design these organisms, it must do so by an art which is immediate."
"My contemplation engenders the product of my contemplation... I contemplate, and the lines of bodies come into existence, as if they were issuing forth from me."
What would Darwin think?
Josh
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Contrast prev. quote with BCS' "Objects," in particular:
One notices, if one will trust one's eyes
The shadow cast by language upon truth.
- W. H. Auden
— Jun 09, 2017 05:27PM
One notices, if one will trust one's eyes
The shadow cast by language upon truth.
- W. H. Auden
Josh
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"After all, our consciousness is only an inner sensation: it requires us to split into two, for there must be a temporal distance—however infinitesimal—between that which sees and that which is seen. Consciousness is thus more of a memory than a presence. It is inexorably tangled up in time. All it can give us is images, which it tries to fixate by expressing them in language."
— Jun 09, 2017 05:26PM
Josh
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"When one of his students asked his permission to have a portrait made of him, he refused outright. He gave the following explanation: 'Isn't it enough that I have to bear this image with which Nature has covered us? Must I also consent to leaving behind me an image of that image—this one even longer-lasting—as if it were an image of something worth seeing?'"
— Jun 09, 2017 02:56PM
