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  • Dear NID & Temp,


    For the spark of a social being which each bears within him necessarily participates
    in this collective renovation. The individual soul is regenerated too, by being dipped
    again in the source from which its life comes.
    It is a system of ideas with which the individuals represent to themselves the society
    of which they are members, and the obscure but intimate relations which they have with it.
    This is its primary function; and though metaphorical and symbolic, this representation is not
    unfaithful. Quite on the contrary, it translates everything essential in the relations which
    are to be explained: for it is an eternal truth that outside of us there exists something
    greater than us...

    Con


    -THE DREAM OF LASTING PEACE, WORLD CITIZENSHIP AND THE RULE OF INTERNATIONAL MORALITY WILL REMAIN NOTHING BUT A FLEETING ILLUSION, TO BE PERSUED BUT NEVER ATTAINED (B.M.)

  • Hello Big Apple - hello Germany


    Dear NID & Temp,

    thx alot for your pleasant welcome. We ´ll be discussing some of Durkheim´s basics.


    On feast days, on the contrary, these preoccupations are necessarily eclipsed .
    At this time, their thoughts are centred upon their common beliefs, their common traditions,
    the memory of their great ancestors, the collective ideal of which they are the incarnation;
    in a word, upon social things. So it is society that is in the foreground of every consciousness;
    it dominates and directs all conduct; this is equivalent to saying that it is more living and
    active, and consequently more real, than in profane times.

    Con



    -THE DREAM OF LASTING PEACE, WORLD CITIZENSHIP AND THE RULE OF INTERNATIONAL MORALITY WILL REMAIN NOTHING BUT A FLEETING ILLUSION, TO BE PERSUED BUT NEVER ATTAINED (B.M.)

  • "Per amica silentia lunæ"Datum13.05.2005 22:50

    In Antwort auf:
    Obviously poetry is much more than " a mind at work" . Romanticism belongs to the History of the Western world. Yet reading the Romantics today, reading them as if for the first time, skipping prefaces and other framing critical discourses, with the eyes of a scholar trying honestly to make his own mind about these works of the past: such an experience is bound to come as a surprise.


    Dear Friends,

    Poetry searches for radiance,
    poetry is the kingly road
    that leads us farthest.
    We seek radiance in a gray hour,
    at noon or in the chimneys of the dawn,
    even on a bus, in November,
    while an old priest nods beside us.
    The waiter in a Chinese restaurant bursts into tears
    and no one can think why.



    Who knows, this may also be a quest,
    like that moment at the seashore,
    when a predatory ship appeared on the horizon
    and stopped short, held still for a long while.
    And also moments of deep joy
    and countless moments of anxiety.
    Let me see, I ask.
    Let me persist, I say.
    A cold rain falls at night.
    In the streets and avenues of my city
    quiet darkness is hard at work.
    Poetry searches for radiance.

    (Clare Cavanagh)

    Con
    -THE DREAM OF LASTING PEACE, WORLD CITIZENSHIP AND THE RULE OF INTERNATIONAL MORALITY WILL REMAIN NOTHING BUT A FLEETING ILLUSION, TO BE PERSUED BUT NEVER ATTAINED (B.M.)


  • In Antwort auf:

    If anywhere at all, this may have held true in those regionally confined "simple societies" that - idealized, and with all the problems such idealization entails - Durkheim pits against the "higher societies" of the ever less appropriate to the body's constitution.

    Dear Friends,

    On the one hand, the individual gets from society the best part of himself, all that gives him a distinct character and a special place among other beings, his intellectual and moral culture. If we should withdraw from men their language, sciences, arts and moral beliefs, they would drop to the rank of animals. So the characteristic attributes of human nature come from society. But, on the other hand, society exists and lives only in and through individuals.



    If we are to see in the efficacy attributed to [religious] rites anything more than the product of a chronic delirium with which humanity has abused itself, we must show that the effect of the cult really is to recreate periodically a moral being upon which we depend as it depends upon us. Now this being does exist: it is society. Howsoever little importance the religious ceremonies may have, they put the group into action; the groups assemble to celebrate them. So their first effect is to bring individuals together, to multiply the relations between them and to make them more intimate with one another.


    Con



    -THE DREAM OF LASTING PEACE, WORLD CITIZENSHIP AND THE RULE OF INTERNATIONAL MORALITY WILL REMAIN NOTHING BUT A FLEETING ILLUSION, TO BE PERSUED BUT NEVER ATTAINED (B.M.)

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