19 ideas
9307 | Modern Western culture suddenly appeared in Jena in the 1790s [Svendsen] |
22070 | Irony is consciousness of abundant chaos [Schlegel,F] |
22069 | Plato has no system. Philosophy is the progression of a mind and development of thoughts [Schlegel,F] |
9297 | You can't understand love in terms of 'if and only if...' [Svendsen] |
22068 | Poetry is transcendental when it connects the ideal to the real [Schlegel,F] |
9308 | If subjective and objective begin to merge, then so do primary and secondary qualities [Svendsen] |
6027 | From the fact that some men die, we cannot infer that they all do [Philodemus] |
9309 | Emotions have intentional objects, while a mood is objectless [Svendsen] |
22030 | For poets free choice is supreme [Schlegel,F] |
9304 | Death appears to be more frightening the less one has lived [Svendsen] |
22071 | True love is ironic, in the contrast between finite limitations and the infinity of love [Schlegel,F] |
22241 | Don't fear god or worry about death; the good is easily got and the terrible easily cured [Philodemus] |
22029 | Irony is the response to conflicts of involvement and attachment [Schlegel,F, by Pinkard] |
9302 | We are bored because everything comes to us fully encoded, and we want personal meaning [Svendsen] |
9310 | The profoundest boredom is boredom with boredom [Svendsen] |
9298 | We can be unaware that we are bored [Svendsen] |
9301 | Boredom is so radical that suicide could not overcome it; only never having existed would do it [Svendsen] |
9311 | We have achieved a sort of utopia, and it is boring, so that is the end of utopias [Svendsen] |
9303 | The concept of 'alienation' seems no longer applicable [Svendsen] |