J-A, This, my friend, was absolutely fascinating.
The split in attitude is quite connected to Time. Romantics cling to the > status of the actual Now, the eternal change between before and later. > Classics prefer to follow the eternal lines and stick to patterns which are > unchanged during a long period of change. Patterns pointing to Newton, > Plato and beyond ancient history. > > Jc: Relating them to time, is a move that never occured to me before, but that sounds right on. Let me sit with that a moment.... I think Classicism also looks forward, in a sense. Attempting to carry patterns forward, and perpetuate them where Rom's only see the now, what looks good in the moment. I will have to play with this, but you've opened up some thought-pathways, J-A. > The interesting point here is this: > How could Romantic and Classical attitudes meet if both carrier doesn't > have the mental mirror, the conscious distance to themselves, if they don't > understand that there is such a difference between them? > > Jan-Anders > > That's right. self-knowing comes from differentiation. If there were only kind of thinking, could thinking know itself at all? JohnC Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
