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Re: Notes From The German Genius
« on: July 21, 2014, 07:44:12 am »
Some words/ideas I want to focus on as I drift through the days:

This division, between Kultur and Zivilisation, was underlined by a second opposition, that between Geist and Macht, the realm of intellectual or spiritual endeavor and the realm of power and political control.

I lean strongly in the direction of Kultur (as opposed to Zivilisation) and Geist as opposed to Macht.


Bildung – true (inner) freedom – involved three things:  Zwecklosigkeit, Innerlichkeit, and Wissenschaftlichkeit (non-purposiveness inwardness and scholarliness).

Zwecklosigkeit = "non-purosiveness" ---> what to do with one's life on earth?  Nothing.

Innerlichkeit = "inwardness" ---> talking to myself

Wissenschaftlichkeit = "scholariness" ---> enjoying one's higher mental faculties as an end in itself.
Things They Will Never Tell YouArthur Schopenhauer has been the most radical and defiant of all troublemakers.

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