"In every age, in various forms, philosophers have defended their own independence and their resistance to the given world, saying that the aim of their knowing was freedom and not nature, spirit and not matter, value and not actuality, meaning and not necessity, essence and not appearance. Philosophy, like every creative act, strives toward the transcendent, towards passing beyond the borders of the given world. Philosophy does not believe that the world is really like that which is forced upon us by necessity."- February 1914, Nikolai Berdyeav-"The Meaning of the Creative Act".
"Science has no visions of freedom in the world. Science does not know the final secrets because science is knowledge without danger. Hence science does not know Truth but knows only truths. The truth of science is significant only for partial conditions of being and for partial orientations within it. Science makes its own reality." - Ibid.
I don't think Nietszche killed G~d. But he certainly killed an awful lot of Gods. Like, conceptually. Vast monotheistic conceptions, over and done. No video available.
This was an emotionally moving read for me. I have a sense like I've killed off so much of the beliefs, metaphors, and meaning in my psyche, all in pursuit of something better, better, better. And what am I left with?
This is the story of soul, at least of my soul. I don’t like labels, but if I have to choose one, I’m definitely a post-cynical. Thank you for your beautiful writing and interpretation, it lifts my spirit
"In every age, in various forms, philosophers have defended their own independence and their resistance to the given world, saying that the aim of their knowing was freedom and not nature, spirit and not matter, value and not actuality, meaning and not necessity, essence and not appearance. Philosophy, like every creative act, strives toward the transcendent, towards passing beyond the borders of the given world. Philosophy does not believe that the world is really like that which is forced upon us by necessity."- February 1914, Nikolai Berdyeav-"The Meaning of the Creative Act".
"Science has no visions of freedom in the world. Science does not know the final secrets because science is knowledge without danger. Hence science does not know Truth but knows only truths. The truth of science is significant only for partial conditions of being and for partial orientations within it. Science makes its own reality." - Ibid.
Thank you - I had never heard of him!
"Life, and all that lives, is conceived in the mist and not the crystal. And who knows but a crystal is mist in decay?"
(The Prophet)
I don't think Nietszche killed G~d. But he certainly killed an awful lot of Gods. Like, conceptually. Vast monotheistic conceptions, over and done. No video available.
This was an emotionally moving read for me. I have a sense like I've killed off so much of the beliefs, metaphors, and meaning in my psyche, all in pursuit of something better, better, better. And what am I left with?
This is the story of soul, at least of my soul. I don’t like labels, but if I have to choose one, I’m definitely a post-cynical. Thank you for your beautiful writing and interpretation, it lifts my spirit
We poets live inside the fiction of the Cathedral.
https://narrascaping.substack.com/p/agi-is-a-cathedral?r=5a3m3n