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Wednesday, August 31, 2022

The Awful Risk Of The Modern Man

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Carl Jung, The Practice of Pschotherapy , tr. R. F. C. Hull (Bollingen Series XX., 1954), pt. 2, II., Psychology of the Transference, 8: Pur...
Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Vanity

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Samuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes 1749 (his own imitation of Juvenal's tenth satire, from which I quoted in the previous post):...
Monday, August 29, 2022

Old Age

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Decimus Junius Juvenalis, Satires , 4.10, tr. G. G. Ramsay: Give me length of days, give me many years. O Jupiter! Such is your one and only...

No-one Is Left Unscathed

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Isaac Disraeli, Curiosities of Literature , Sketches of Criticism: Socrates, considered as the wisest and the most moral of men, Cicero trea...
Sunday, August 28, 2022

The Coming Of The Baroque & The «Too Much» To Italy, Nature, Rome, The Garden, & The Aristocrats

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Jacques Élie Faure, History of Art , vol. III., Renaissance Art , tr. Walter Pach (Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1923), ch. II., Rome and ...
Friday, August 26, 2022

The Pleasure Of Danger And Struggle

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Jean-Marie Guyau, A Sketch of Morality Independent of Obligation or Sanction , tr. Gertrude Kapteyn (London, 1898), 2nd bk., ch. I., sect. I...

Man And Mountains

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Walther Kirchner, Mind, Mountain, and History , I. The Classical Spirit, Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 11, No. 4 (Oct., 1950), pp. 4...
Thursday, August 25, 2022

Constant Sense Of Novelty

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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals , 1841, Otober 9: Life .  Is identity tedious? Not if we can see to the life. That always stupefies us with sw...

Philosophers And Taking Dicision

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Friedrich Schiller, The Philosophers , tr. Edgar A. Bowring: PUPIL.  I am rejoiced, worthy sirs, to find you in pleno assembled;    For I ha...
Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Between Being On One's Own And Being With Others

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Joseph-Marie baron de Gérando, Self-Education; or, The Means and Art of Moral Progress , (Boston, 1833), ch. III., Solitude and Society, pp....

Human Nature And The Stoics

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William Edward Lecky, History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne , vol. I., (New York: 3rd edt., 1897), ch. 2, The Pagan Empire...
Monday, August 22, 2022

Athens, The Germans, Wincklemann, & Becoming Greeks

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Frederick Beiser, Hegel, (Routledge, 2005), ch. II., Early Ideals, The Highest Good, p. 38: The young Hegel and the romantics had a very ide...

Bibliomania For Its Own Sake

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Isaac Disræli, his valuable  Curiosities of Literature , The Bibliomania: The Bibliomania, or the collecting an enormous heap of books witho...

Wise Negligence

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Attributed to Sir Joshua Reynolds, in: Frederick Hilles,  The Literary Career Of Sir Joshua Reynolds , 1936, ch. I., Education, p. 3: If you...

Hegel And The Romantic Legacy, & The Question Of Polemics

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Frederick Beiser, Hegel , (Routledge, 2005), ch. II., Early Ideals, The Romantic Legacy, pp. 35-36: Although the importance of the romantic ...
Sunday, August 21, 2022

Health

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Ariphron Pæan to Health (tr. J. M. Edmonds, Lyra Græca, vol. III., Loeb, 1927, pp. 401-2): Health (Ὑγίεια), eldest of Gods, with thee may I...
Saturday, August 20, 2022

Young Hegel On Love

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Georg Wilhelm Hegel, On Love  1797, tr. T. M. Knox, 1970: True union, or love proper, exists only between living things who are alike in pow...
Friday, August 19, 2022

The Need For Opposition

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Immanuel Kant, Lectures on Pedagogy  1803, tr. Robert B. Louden, p. 443, in: Anthropology, History, and Education  (Cambridge, 2007): But a ...
Thursday, August 18, 2022

The Cultivation Of Tastes

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William Edward Lecky, The Map of Life: Conduct and Character (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1917), ch. XII., The Management of Character, pp. 2...
Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Unity And The Yearn For It

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Karl Rahner,  Theological Investigations , vol. VI., tr. Karl-H. and Boniface Kruger (New York, 1982), pt. 1, ch. I., The Man of Today and R...