Shun Nakamura was nice enough to point out what I meant with those verses. Then again, maybe we are speaking in different languages. Or maybe I overestimated you.
Reason in Greece is different to reason after Descartes. Reason proclaims it's own contradictions, even though that may sound like an oxymoron. Are you familiar to David Hume's empirical skepticism? Modern reason has a limit, it is drawn right when we get to things beyond the understanding of man. Things beyond space and time. Like God. Like reality beyond the veil of Maya.In a universe where no contradictions can exist, reason is not merely the ultimate form of knowledge; it is the ONLY viable form of knowledge.
Kant was not an ignorant, he simply was not a mystic. And you aren't either. If you are able to refute the Critique of Pure Reason through reason, I'll present you as a candidate to a Nobel prize.Kant's choosing to make arguments that can only be refuted with mysticism shows his ignorance
Here:No, explain why it's doubtful. We've got another four billion years before the sun explodes.
And as a final point, yes people are selfish. But some of us just enjoy helping people. I like to help people... not cause it always makes me feel good(it doesn't always.. I don't enjoy helping those that I am "enemies" with). However, I would expect the same treatment from them. And I am a firm believer that how you treat people affects how they treat you. It must work cause I have a lot of freinds.Usually. And of course, Ockham was in different terms, he was not refering to psychology. As said, the argument is upside down. Capitalism fits this humanity you talk about, a society of hollow men. Because capitalism created them. The pyschological theory you wield is as hollow and simple as it can get. It attempts to do a general rule out of the behaviour a few. Isn't that unreasonable?What's wrong with reductionism? As Ockham's razor says, the simplest solution that fits the facts is usually the right one.
Capitalism is for the sake of the community. Offer and demand. Society demands, you must satisfy such demands. If you produce what is not demanded, to hell with you. And personally, I believe Divina Comedia is something superior to Da Vinci Code. And "Les quatre cents coups" is far beyond Episode III. But in a society of hollow men, the hollow is the demanded, the hollow is the produced. Because the hollow men have their "headpiece filled with straw", because this is how capitalism can mantain itself. If people longed beyond Eliot's Wasteland, things would be different.Why do you think we're doing the work? We're not doing it for the sake of the community. We're doing it for our sake.
The sublime lies in the eye of the beholder. For me, the sublime is in Baudelaire, Goethe, Gil de Biedma, Hölderlin, Friedrich, Gauguin, Rembrandt, Chopin, Mahler, Truffaut, Wong Kar-Wai, Basho and a few more. That as for the sublime produced by man. Then there is the sublime in nature, wich is beyond art. The sublime is found in the aesthetical extasis, in Beauty with capital letters, and of course, that is beyond reason, beyond offer and demand.What, precisely, do you define as sublime?
Shun replied to that. We are already overporducing. We waste more quickly than nature can regenerate. Productive totalitarism demands. We do not eat, we devour.We cannot ever produce beyond what resources allow. Such a thing violates the laws of physics.






