“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris
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Tim, I'm not sure you're a person. Sometimes you sound more like a crack between appearance and reality. Actually, you sound like that more frequently than any person I know, so with you I'm REALLY not sure.
Thanks. It's great to hear this. Over the last year or so I've been getting more familiar with these ideas, and they seem to work very well. It inspires me to start writing again.
I love the image of somebody smoking a rolled-up Mona Lisa as an attempt to grasp the beautiful. This must be the reasoning behind those student accommodation posters depicting Mona Lisa smoking a spliff. Clearly a Kantian thing.
I love the image of somebody smoking a rolled-up Mona Lisa as an attempt to grasp the beautiful. This must be the reasoning behind those student accommodation posters depicting Mona Lisa smoking a spliff. Clearly a Kantian thing.
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