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What's the meaning of this aphorism by Goethe?
Thanks to @JoWehler we got the German original text, which reads:
Alles Spinozistische in der poetischen Produktion wird in der Reflexion Machiavellismus.
A proper translation would be
Everything ...
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What's the meaning of this aphorism by Goethe?
The quote is from "Goethe: Maximen und Reflexionen. Aus Kunst und Altertum. Fünftes Heft, Dritter Band 1826".
The German original reads: „Alles Spinozistische in der poetischen Produktion ...
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What's the meaning of this aphorism by Goethe?
I take this to be making maybe a similar point to Zizek when he argues that poetry is an inherently ambiguous medium, because it is about pure experience — just like music, a poem can be used to ...
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Who has used Poetry for Philosophy?
AE (George Russell) was an Irish poet, not so well-known as Yeats
Here is the last verse of one of his poems
We must rise or we must fall:
Love can know no middle way:
If the great life do not ...
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The difference between poetry and philosophy, and whether a quote can describe a philosophy
They can be two different things or not. Take Leopardi. He wrote the Zibaldone as one of the most original philosophers of XIX century, and at the same time he wrote poems which reflected what he ...
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The difference between poetry and philosophy, and whether a quote can describe a philosophy
In Indian philosophy most philosophical ideas are in the form of poems. Philosophy can be summarized in the form of poetry. By this, people can remember ideas easily. You may verify the tones of ...
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Reference - Heidegger on Hölderlin's translations?
In The Ister lectures (p. 56, GA 53 p. 70) Heidegger refers to Hölderlin's translation of Antigone, and continues through that chapter.
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The difference between poetry and philosophy, and whether a quote can describe a philosophy
Poetry is a form of expression of ideas or emotions. Usually with some kind of rhythmical meter or structure to the language (otherwise it's prose). But the definition is vague; sometimes the only ...
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The difference between poetry and philosophy, and whether a quote can describe a philosophy
The ancient quarrel between poetry and philosophy
Philosophers from Plato to Heidegger have seen a fundamental tension or incompatibility between philosophy and poetry. The 'ancient quarrel' quote is ...
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The difference between poetry and philosophy, and whether a quote can describe a philosophy
There's a natural relationship between the two: Poems operate outside the established structures of well-defined meanings in standard language, and philosophies operate outside standard and ...
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Is Nietzsche's eternal return symbolized by the Vortex of early modernists?
No, vortex does not represent eternal return, or something else Nietzschean, although there is a quaint common cause connection in the 19th century physics. Although Nietzsche did influence some ...
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Are artistic forms mind independent?
Something that I would like to raise to this question is that the fundamental appreciation of art depends on the perspective of the observer in the sense that if you had no relative context on what ...
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Which poems and song lyrics do you find philosophically meaningful?
My entry today is a poem by Francis Jammes, written in French and translated into English by your humble servant. It was sung by Brassens.
A Prayer
By the little boy who dies next to his mother
While ...
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Is Nietzsche's eternal return symbolized by the Vortex of early modernists?
Great Question.
Starting from a platonic perspective of strict form the vortex begins with a 0d point and ends with a 0d point...it is circular in nature as the end point is the same as the premise. ...
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What are "Things" in Letters to a Young Poet?
The following quotes are from the letter from 16.7.1903
... excessive noise that makes Things tremble = des übergroßen Lärms, von dem die Dinge zittern
... if you trust in Things = wenn Sie sich an ...
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Any philosophy in verse
Many, indeed most of the pre-Socratics. Parmenides, Heraclitus, Empedocles.
Perhaps the most influential versifier in philosophy was the Roman atomist Lucretius, whose "On Nature" was recovered by ...
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Any philosophy in verse
See the Bustan/Bostan, by the Persian poet Saadi/Sadi. Although the English translation is only superficially poetic; it reads like a set of parables. There is at least one online version available.
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