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John Dunn
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John Dunn original writing
Quicksands of dead abstraction
For conscience to have originated in Fichte’s Absolute ‘I’ would have been unacceptable to Coleridge. This was simply the opposite pole to Spinoza’s Substance. For Coleridge, the critical issue was not where the ground of being lies, whether that is with Spinoza’s Absolute Substance (object) or Fichte’s Absolute ‘I’ (subject). The critical issue was that both these grounds were dead abstractions. Coleridge recognised a need to overcome the polarity in which lay the quicksands of dead abstraction. He recognised the need to avoid being stranded at either pole, the poles of presupposition, the prefabricated world, which is where the neo-feudalists want everyone stranded. The albatross appeared at the pole, distant from the equator, and the Mariner shot it down.
From Child of Encounter
© John Dunn.
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From the archive:
Redcrosse Knight
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Turning helix
I chose active thinking. I chose Love. This was the resurrection of the self, the victory over death.
And the multiplicity became mine to behold.
John Dunn
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Just a thought:
Dante placed sodomites and usurers in the same circle of Hell in the Divine Comedy. Both being against natural increase, they were considered to be socially destructive, yet containable and limited in their power. However, their corrosive power was about to be multiplied under the new Bank of England. John Dunn (Renaissance: Counter-Renaissance)
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The Oxford to Cambridge Arch 5
Further additions to the project, starting with the Bedford to Cambridge leg of Ogilby's 1675 Oxford to Cambridge route.
John Dunn
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