Define yourself. You'll be right!
Me, I prefer Hamlet's definition:
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty!
In form, in moving, how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In
apprehension how like a God!
Peter Lissaman, Da
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I Always wondered how Hamlet knew what an angel looked like. Let alone, God.
Seems like a version of Wittgenstein’s bug-in-a-box problem.
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On 1 Dec 2010 at 13:12, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
I Always wondered how Hamlet knew what an angel
looked like. Let alone, God.
...
Nick, you are being an uncareful reader. Here's
the text from Hamlet, again:
What a piece of work is a man!
How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty!
I thought Hamlet was being ironic... Or am I being the Mayor of
Missingthepointsville?
~~James
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On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 2:13 PM, plissa...@comcast.net wrote:
Define yourself. You'll be right!
Me, I prefer Hamlet's definition:
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in
OK, James, you spooked me. So, I looked it up. The context is very
complex. http://www.shakespeare-literature.com/Hamlet/7.html It is one of
the Mad Scenes, at the end of which Hamlet describes his ... uh ...
depressive state of mind. But the characterization of man seems sincere,
because he
There are angelic images in the Babylonian periods (Winged Bearded warriors)
. The Egyptians had the bodiless angel with the typical Byzantine form. I've
seen Nike in Paris and she is clearly an angelic form. Manuscripts were in
circulation quite a bit earlier in Northern Europe and the
Yes, Vladimyr, and beautiful images they are.
But what did the painter use as a model? God may have made Man in the image
of himself, but made god in his own image. It is the ultimate
anthropomorphism.
I was originally making a joke, but I seem to have started a theological
bicker,
