Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Ah, but so, as I reflect on it, everything about which I know anything,

Material and Mental Reality--which is, I read somewhere, the basic Cartesian Duality--is what it all comes down to.  Or, in another formulation, (1) That which Is, and (2) That which is Reflected--and (3) the Infinite Void which is Both and Neither.  Perhaps.  Well, so we can account for Vorstellung, which is everything about (something), referent (to something), symbolic (of something); i.e., language, logic, mathematics and the empirical (verifiable) sciences.

And having got so far, I evoke the images from the Hubble Telescope, and the music of Bach which is (arguably) congruent with those images: I am content that my philosophy is thereby rendered complete, and that, as a complete philosophy should, it contains and reflects the entire universe (except for the parts we're not just now examining, and)










Except, of course, for the special/lesser/human qualities/virtues:  of gentleness, sweetness, kindness, cuteness, benevolence, playfulness, forbearance, willingness to let things be, wit, grace, modesty, charm, delight and good-humor (the Spirit of the Rococo), which every human philosophy, however sublime, must somehow contain and account for, or else be found morally and ethically deficient.  I suppose that this is what is meant by Wille; it is, along with fairness and moderation, what I mean by Morality and Ethics.  It is to note moreover, that in embodying or manifesting the Spirit of the Rococo, it also may be held, on the one hand, to embody or manifest the Spirit of the Baroque, and, on the other hand, to embody or manifest the Spirit of Serene Neo-Classicism.

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