In life, love and friendship there is an understanding that one has to let go and, more: that it is good to do so. To hold on can just be the ego at work. as always, what to hold on to and what let to go off-and when-is the kind of training that is not provided by theory.
Iris M.
The good is not an abstract concept but something that moves us (the will). Choice is not an isolated act of the will. Commitment and character can determine or influence one's choices (Hume: Annette Baier). One can act "out of character". The idea of a narrative unity is antithetical to the operations of late capitalism. The fragmentary is no longer an unequivocal liberating force.
But we do see though a glass darkly. And the desire for "fullness" or perfection can be a sign of hubris. How to negotiate the tension between the two perspectives or inclinations? (Nussbaum on Calypso is instructive here: Transcending Humanity).
A full life, you read Ibn Arabi saying somewhere, is a life that includes imperfections, incompleteness. No heart is as whole as a broken heart, said a rabbi. A life that imitates fullness and always grasps for it or falsely believes it has achieved it is often, therefore, really broken, imperfect, because it has created an idol.
"In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen and enough to rot upon the ground."
There is something beyond 'life' and that is a dark unknowing, cannot be spoken of.
Charles Taylor: we walk away from the field into the forest. There are fewer markers, boundaries..a clearing, an open space. But the field is always with us. In a similar sense, the unknown always structures our way of being.
There are a few old tracks but these are unrecognized or put down in a script we can no longer read. Is this really the same place, even? We need a new introduction (some would deny the forest altogether). That is the profound discussion in Jonathan Lear's Radical Hope.
The Black & Green: renunciation and affirmation; austerity not as a turning away from life but a rejection of absorption in it.
To say "Thy will be done" is to enter the forest.
Be careful of substituting words for the real thing. Be careful of falling in love with words. Life, no matter what you do or think, is always full of some kind of imperfection, an awareness that something is missing and always will be, said Ubo, my father, my Jew.
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Ah, the folks at Coke..you have to love them!
Iris M.
The good is not an abstract concept but something that moves us (the will). Choice is not an isolated act of the will. Commitment and character can determine or influence one's choices (Hume: Annette Baier). One can act "out of character". The idea of a narrative unity is antithetical to the operations of late capitalism. The fragmentary is no longer an unequivocal liberating force.
But we do see though a glass darkly. And the desire for "fullness" or perfection can be a sign of hubris. How to negotiate the tension between the two perspectives or inclinations? (Nussbaum on Calypso is instructive here: Transcending Humanity).
A full life, you read Ibn Arabi saying somewhere, is a life that includes imperfections, incompleteness. No heart is as whole as a broken heart, said a rabbi. A life that imitates fullness and always grasps for it or falsely believes it has achieved it is often, therefore, really broken, imperfect, because it has created an idol.
"In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen and enough to rot upon the ground."
There is something beyond 'life' and that is a dark unknowing, cannot be spoken of.
Charles Taylor: we walk away from the field into the forest. There are fewer markers, boundaries..a clearing, an open space. But the field is always with us. In a similar sense, the unknown always structures our way of being.
There are a few old tracks but these are unrecognized or put down in a script we can no longer read. Is this really the same place, even? We need a new introduction (some would deny the forest altogether). That is the profound discussion in Jonathan Lear's Radical Hope.
The Black & Green: renunciation and affirmation; austerity not as a turning away from life but a rejection of absorption in it.
To say "Thy will be done" is to enter the forest.
Be careful of substituting words for the real thing. Be careful of falling in love with words. Life, no matter what you do or think, is always full of some kind of imperfection, an awareness that something is missing and always will be, said Ubo, my father, my Jew.
~
Ah, the folks at Coke..you have to love them!
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