Beautiful...Methinks that whether you change the world or not, what's important is that you open yourself up to an adventurous and full life of worthwhile deeds....Don't cheat yourself....
Lovely piece, encouraging especially before the Great Fast begins. "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." In pursuit of the ideal.
Awesome. It's an unexpected trouble to feel that despair come from that deep longing for more noble ages. But why despair when you can conquer yourself and change your world.
Once again, your thought anticipates mine own by just a few steps
I’ve been thinking about this longing for the past couple weeks. It seems to be the way forward for everything. Past irony, through despair, towards re-enchantment, towards greatness. This apathetic generation has very, very limited desires. I see it in myself as well as my friends, even as I’ve found myself longing for more than I ever have in my life. This must be the way. If God allows himself to long for us, then we should be longing way more than we ever have. Our desires are too small
Romanticism is deep philosophically. Value is based on sentiment, and economics can be discovered from a Romantic perspective, and described in terms of attention, importance, and value. So it's impossible to extract economics from sentiment, because value is sentimental. I claim that mathematics would be impossible without an aesthetic preference for congruity. The recognition of mathematical congruity is emotional (happy face), while incongruities are rejected on the basis of aesthetics (frowny face). Without this aesthetic judgment against incongruity, math is pointless.
The best ethical attack on inhumane science is a Romantic classic: Frankenstein. The intersection of Romantic philosophy with American statism and individual freedom is essential: Tom Paine. William Blake and Charles Dickens are great teachers of Romantic ethics. I'm interested in the Romantic underpinnings of the horror genre. It's not far from Mary Shelley and Samuel Coleridge to Poe and Hawthorne. Just a skip over the pond.
I consider myself to be a philosophical Romantic. Romanticism is heavily influenced by the Irish Idealism of Bishop Berkeley, and resonates more with baroque philosophy than with the produce of the 18th and 20th century. Romanticism is ancient Irish philosophy. Wisdom is eternal. I think of Blake as an Irish idealist. I said all that, and I didn't say Keats or Wordsworth. Both are essential.
Always make time to be the noble and humble romantic. Some may not understand, but those that do will be eternally grateful that you acknowledged their worth and value.
"You said you had a dream. That dream, make it come true! Wonderful dreams and ideals give you the power to change the world! Make your wonderful dream a reality and it will become your truth!" -Natural Harmonia Gropius
"But I believe, now more than ever, only idealists can change the world." -Léon Degrelle
Beautiful...Methinks that whether you change the world or not, what's important is that you open yourself up to an adventurous and full life of worthwhile deeds....Don't cheat yourself....
Lovely piece, encouraging especially before the Great Fast begins. "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." In pursuit of the ideal.
The fast began for me Monday, its great that we're all doing it together this year
Thank you for the challenges.
Awesome. It's an unexpected trouble to feel that despair come from that deep longing for more noble ages. But why despair when you can conquer yourself and change your world.
Wow! Asha has his finger on the pulse and it’s getting stronger!
Once again, your thought anticipates mine own by just a few steps
I’ve been thinking about this longing for the past couple weeks. It seems to be the way forward for everything. Past irony, through despair, towards re-enchantment, towards greatness. This apathetic generation has very, very limited desires. I see it in myself as well as my friends, even as I’ve found myself longing for more than I ever have in my life. This must be the way. If God allows himself to long for us, then we should be longing way more than we ever have. Our desires are too small
Seeking Valinor
Romanticism is deep philosophically. Value is based on sentiment, and economics can be discovered from a Romantic perspective, and described in terms of attention, importance, and value. So it's impossible to extract economics from sentiment, because value is sentimental. I claim that mathematics would be impossible without an aesthetic preference for congruity. The recognition of mathematical congruity is emotional (happy face), while incongruities are rejected on the basis of aesthetics (frowny face). Without this aesthetic judgment against incongruity, math is pointless.
The best ethical attack on inhumane science is a Romantic classic: Frankenstein. The intersection of Romantic philosophy with American statism and individual freedom is essential: Tom Paine. William Blake and Charles Dickens are great teachers of Romantic ethics. I'm interested in the Romantic underpinnings of the horror genre. It's not far from Mary Shelley and Samuel Coleridge to Poe and Hawthorne. Just a skip over the pond.
I consider myself to be a philosophical Romantic. Romanticism is heavily influenced by the Irish Idealism of Bishop Berkeley, and resonates more with baroque philosophy than with the produce of the 18th and 20th century. Romanticism is ancient Irish philosophy. Wisdom is eternal. I think of Blake as an Irish idealist. I said all that, and I didn't say Keats or Wordsworth. Both are essential.
Excellent post! Such a wonderful read.
Always make time to be the noble and humble romantic. Some may not understand, but those that do will be eternally grateful that you acknowledged their worth and value.
The quote from Augustine hit me hard.
"You said you had a dream. That dream, make it come true! Wonderful dreams and ideals give you the power to change the world! Make your wonderful dream a reality and it will become your truth!" -Natural Harmonia Gropius
"But I believe, now more than ever, only idealists can change the world." -Léon Degrelle