Sublime

I believe the influence of Kierkegaard on Camus is underestimated. I believe Dennis Gabor may very well have been the Antichrist. I believe Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror. I believe, with Hegel, that transcendence is absorption.

Those who choose to continue to see a person as a single monolithic entity held to high standards of coherence will only ever be responding to a fraction of the World of a person.

Journal,

“…the stammerings of an old man who does not seem to have achieved a full psychic victory over an awkward adolescence…”

narrated both a deeply individual response and an ethical philosophy orientated to a larger social world.

Since Auerbach’s measure of stylistic maturity values writing to the extent that it penetrates through local and individual human purpose to historicist truth, he naturally discounts the individual purposes of writers as impediments to the representation of truth. The more a writer includes and the less he selects according to his own purpose, the

one’s every encounter with the world has always been an encounter with an enigma that no merely physical explanation can resolve.

Philosophy of Right

To paraphrase Heisenberg, the sorts of answers that nature provides are determined by the sorts of questions we pose of her.