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Introductory Rites
The section of the Mass preceding the Liturgy of the Word that confers a quality of preparation and introduction on the Eucharistic Sacrifice. The intent is that the assembled group unite as a community properly prepared to hear God's Word and celebrate the Eucharist. Includes the following:
Entrance Antiphon Greeting Penitential Rite (Rite of Blessing & Sprinkling) Kyrie (Lord, Have Mercy) Gloria (Glory to God) Opening Prayer
Liturgy of the Word
Liturgy of the Word – The major part of the Mass between the Opening Prayer and the preparation of the Gifts during which the Word of God is proclaimed, responded to, authoritatively explained, accepted and held fast, and appealed to. Includes the following:
First Reading Responsorial Psalm Second Reading Gospel Acclamation (Alleluia) Gospel Reading Homily Silence Profession of Faith (Nicene Creed) or (Apostles' Creed) General Intercessions (Prayer of the Faithful) Church Public Authorities Salvation of the World (Oppressed) Local Community
Liturgy of the Eucharist
The major part of the Mass after the Liturgy of the Word and ending before the Concluding Rite. This part corresponds to the words and actions of Christ at the Last Supper. Christ took bread and the cup, gave thanks, broke, and gave them to His disciples saying: "Take and eat; this is My Body. Take and drink; This is the cup of My Blood. Do this in memory of Me."
Preparation of the Gifts (Presentation) – The priest prepares the altar and the gifts, prays over the bread and wine, and helps the assembly get ready for the tremendous Sacrifice that will take place in an unbloody manner. Includes the following:
Offertory Song Preparation of the Altar Preparation of the Bread Preparation of the Wine Washing of Hands Invitation to Prayer Prayer over the Gifts
Eucharistic Prayer – The center and high point of the Mass that makes Christ present for us in His Passion, Death, and Resurrection. During it, the entire assembly joins Christ in acknowledging the works of God and in the offering of Sacrifice. Includes the following:
Introductory Dialogue Preface Sanctus Eucharistic Prayer Thanksgiving Acclamation Epiclesis – Ask God to consecrate the Host & Wine Institution – Narrative and Consecration Anamnesis – Command of Christ through the Apostles Offering Intercessions Final Doxology Memorial Acclamation Great Amen
Communion Rite – It is when God gives a gift to Him: Jesus Christ, the Son of God and Savior of the world. Includes the following:
The Lord's Prayer Rite of Peace (Sign of Peace) Fraction Rite Breaking of the Bread Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) Personal Prayer Communion Silent Prayer Prayer after Communion
Concluding Rite
Immediately after the Communion Rite, should there be any announcements, these are made, but should be kept brief. Then just as the people were greeted at the beginning of the Mass, so now the presider greets the people again and blesses them in one of three forms, the simple one, or at his discretion a more solemn Blessing, particularly at various seasons or on specific feast days, or a Prayers over the people. Includes the following:
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Politifact has rated that claim by Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch as true.
"In a national economic downturn, Wisconsin families cannot afford to have a leader with an addiction to taxing and spending," Kleefisch wrote in an opinion piece published by Madison's Capital Times on Feb. 3, 2012. "The failed policies Falk has consistently stood for throughout her career are exactly the same policies that led Wisconsin down an irresponsible path to a $3.6 billion budget deficit."
Kleefisch went on to cite chapter and verse:
"As Dane County executive, Falk raised taxes by millions of dollars every year, most notably in 2010, when she increased taxes by 8 percent, the second highest increase across the entire state of Wisconsin."
The op-ed piece contrasts these claims with Walker's state budget, which Kleefisch says was balanced "without raising taxes on Wisconsin families."
The proof behind this truth?
Asked to back up the claim about Falk, the Walker campaign — speaking for Kleefisch — pointed us to property tax figures compiled by Dane County and the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance, a nonpartisan research group.
Falk's approach as executive from 1997 to 2011 was to limit increases in the property tax levy to inflation with a factor built in for population growth. It was an effort to tie increases to service demand, said Scott McDonell, chairman of the Dane County Board, which largely approved of Falk's approach.
Did Falk's budget raise property taxes by 8 percent in 2010, "the second highest" in the state? Yes.
In 2010, Falk busted past her self-imposed levy limit of 1.19 percent for that year. She blamed lagging sales tax and other revenue due to the Great Recession, and said higher property taxes, a 3 percent wage cut negotiated with county unions and efficiency moves would preserve needed services.
Head to the source to see Politifact's full assessment.
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Making Music with Digital Audio Tools
Learning Italian Phonetics through Web-Based Music and Tongue Twisters
Rosella Bellagamba, Lecturer II in Romance Languages and Literatures, LSA (email@example.com)
Dr. Bellagamba focused on creating interactive web-based exercises for students to learn Italian Phonetics. The exercises range from filling-in-blanks and matching words to recording pronunciations and comparing students' pronunciations to the existing ones recorded by a native speaker. This set of exercises adds fun to learning language and appeals to students' learning styles. The templates for the interactive exercises will be useful for others teaching basic Italian.
American Humor Multimedia and Web Initiative/American Culture
Lori Brooks, Assistant Professor of Afro-American and African Studies and Assistant Professor of American Culture, LSA (email@example.com)
Dr. Brooks used multimedia iMovie and PowerPoint to enhance her teaching of American Humor, a large lecture course in American Culture. Dr. Brooks learned and integrated video editing techniques, improving her ability to move rapidly between lecture content and audiovisual content that is both succinct and directed. In addition to integrating clips of video, links to YouTube, and images in her PowerPoint, she also used interactive questioning techniques and active learning strategies in her presentation.
Assembling the Puzzle: Moving from Basic Science Knowledge to Clinical Expertise
David Brzezinski, Lecturer of Anatomy, Medical School (email@example.com)
Dr. Brzezinski created online cases to integrate medical sciences (such as anatomy pathology, and physiology) for dental students. The cases, guiding students through patient assessment and treatment, require students to actively think about the practical relevance of the basic sciences and apply it to the real world situation. Each student will be assigned to work through a case and also will have the opportunity to see what other students have worked through and how knowledge of basic sciences are applied to solve other real world problems.
Italian Diction in Action: Visual Animation of Sung Italian
Timothy Cheek, Clinical Associate Professor II, School of Music, (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Dr. Cheek focused on creating multi-level animation to aid students in learning to sing in Italian. Cheek used Motion software to animate Italian texts and their transliteration in the International Phonetic Alphabet in both lyrical and recitative passages while they are being sung. The animation illuminates the rhythmic inflection and important details of Italian pronunciation, such as double consonants and rolled Rs, which change colors and move while they are being sung. The visual impact of this dynamic, physical language helps to reinforce essential attributes of the language for students. Students can also sing along with the examples to literally see their pronunciation in action.
Gavin Chuck, Assistant Professor of Music, School of Music, Theatre & Dance, (email@example.com)
Dr. Chuck created a set of exercises and assignments for students in a 100 level course (Introduction to the Theory of Music). The materials help connect the abstract ideas of music theory with concrete musical sound, provide opportunities for students to have hands-on experience with music, and involve them in elementary musical composition using music notation software (Finale Notepad) and mixing software (Garage Band). The exercise of using digital audio technology will help lower the barrier to music-making for students and allow students in a high enrollment class (about 100) to have active and experiential learning experience.
Web-Based Training for Renewal of Cardiac Life Support Skills
Steven Kronick, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Medical School, (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Dr. Kronick used his time in TTI to learn the skills of creating web pages so that he can use it in teaching medical students and training medical staff. The project focused on creating a virtual 6-drawer emergency cart, which allows students to open the cart to review and remember the contents in the cart at their own time and pace so they can find the right medical equipment in a timely fashion when it is needed. The essential value to the virtual emergency cart is that it enables the medical staff to familiarize themselves with the contents of the cart without opening an actual cart, the contents of which are only accessed during arrest situations.
Exploring Italian Language and Culture through "Second Life"
Giorgio Massei, Lecturer II in Romance Languages and Literatures, LSA (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Dr. Massei focused on exploring the possibilities of using Second Life as an environment for learning a second language. For this project, Giorgio created class assignments for students using an existing virtual space (such as the Italian villa) in Second Life. By asking students who took the class in the previous semester to complete the assignments, Giorgio gathered feedback from students on the assignments. The project places students in a virtual environment and enables them to learn language and cultural skills by interacting with native speakers and participating in virtual cultural events and gatherings.
The Next Step: Transforming Pedagogy with Technology
PJ McGann, Lecturer IV in Sociology, LSA (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Dr. McGann had a project goal to display information in multiple ways to motivate students, engage them in actively working with diverse historical materials, and thinking synthetically and critically about them in relation to course conceptualizations. Her TTI project focused on building an interactive multi-media timeline for use on Sociology 345 and 465. The timeline visually lays out social and conceptual issues related to the social regulation of same-sex sexuality and the emergence of Western "gay" identities. The timeline includes multiple ways to explore the data and related conceptual issues, and allows students to self-evaluate their understanding of the information. It also provides links to additional information and historical materials for those who wish to pursue particular topics in depth. The template for the interactive timeline is applicable to other Sociology courses such as Sociology 102 and 368.
Introducing Social Networking in the Study of Asian Cultures
Christi Merrill, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures, LSA (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Dr. Merrill explored various social networking and concept mapping programs popular in public sites that might be applied to the university environment in the humanities. The project is designed to encourage and engage students in questioning through practical, interactive media applications and make meaningful links among the available taxonomies and divisions in the study of Asian cultures.
Creating Web-Based Exercises for Teaching Yiddish
Vera Szabo, Lecturer, Judaic Studies, LSA, (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Vera Szabo used her time in TTI to create interactive web-based exercises for teaching specific Yiddish vocabulary and grammatical structures. The interactive exercises are created in a software program called "Hot Potato" and the exercise template is useful for teaching other Yiddish courses and for other instructors as well.


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Saturday 10.9. - 19:30 Filmhauskino Köln
Dir.: Sarra Idris; Sudan 2014; OV w. german ST; digital; 8 min.
Dir.: Hajooj Kuka; Sudan 2014; OV w. engl. ST; DCP; 65 min.
Live-Musik: S. P. Music (Sudanese People Music – Refugee-Band from Hannover)
Price Films: 7 Euro / 5 Euro (reduced) / Concert: 3 Euro
Films & Concert: 8 Euro / 6 Euro (reduced)
All revenues go to the band! - Refugees: Free of charge
Hajooj Kuka, Sudanese director of BEATS OF THE ANTONOV, a documentary that won awards at various festivals including Toronto, Durban and Luxor, spent two years living with farmers, shepherds and dispelled rebels along the Blue Nile and in the Nuba Mountains. He portrays their lives in hide-outs and refugee camps that are under constant threat of air strikes during the civil war. But the people do not lose heart. After each air strike, they laugh and play music as a sign that the raid is over and they have survived.
The supporting film ADAM & HOWA tells of the inner conflicts faced by young people in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum and how they hope for a better future. A young rickshaw driver is mourning the loss of his family when an encounter with a mysterious woman changes his life.
Followed by a concert of the refugee band S. P. Music in the foyer of the Filmhauskino!
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Falls assessment rates improve in latest QSM update
News Item
posted by WM Admin on 30 June 2015
"The Health Quality & Safety Commission's latest quality and safety marker (QSM) quarterly data shows falls assessment rates are continuing to improve. The update covers QSM data from January–March 2015".
To read the full story, go to: http://www.hqsc.govt.nz/our-programmes/health-quality-evaluation/news-and-events/news/2212/


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Retired Bucks player Michael Redd visits House of Peace food pantry to encourage, inspire
Food pantries brace for increase in visitors amid federal aid cuts
A longtime player for the Milwaukee Bucks is helping raise awareness about the state of food pantries struggling amid federal budget cuts.
Retired NBA player Michael Redd visited the House of Peace on Tuesday. "There's been such a love connection between me and the House of Peace for the last eight or nine years. I wanted to come back and see the people, see the staff," he said.
Redd visits the facility this time each year to rally this north side resource for the needy. "People are getting hope where there might not have been hope before," he said.
Shelves at the House of Peace are full of food. But there are many times throughout the year when that is not the case due to high demand.
The Rev. Perry McDonald is the House of Peace pastoral director and is worried about the recent expiration of a temporary increase in food stamps.
"Well, that's about $40 a month people who need food stamps, will not have. So we presume they'll come to the House of Peace or other pantries because they don't have the money now they need," he said.
With Thanksgiving just weeks away, Perry worries more people will look to the House of Peace to help their holiday. Athletes like Redd offer a distraction and inspiration as times get tough.


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The worst case scenario for not REACH preregistered materials: Import stop into EEC
EEC REACH CHEMICALS PRE-DECLARATIONS DONE by SPIRIG
Pre-registrations have been done by Spirig Switzerland under the new EEC regulations / laws for the safety of Chemicals containing products at the ECHA organisation Helsinki.
- The major Spirig products had been pre-registered with the ECHA organisation in Helsinki.
- Spirig has established under Reach regulation part (4) to protect the interests of Spirig a so called sole third party representative (STPR) in the EEC.
- Spirig warrants supply within the EEC with all chemicals needed to operate the Spirflame® systems. These chemicals are pre-registrated at the ECHA.
- Spirig chemicals used for the manufacture of the Spirig Desoldering Braids / 3S-Wick® / Lotsauglitze® / Entlötlitzen are pre-registered with ECHA.
- Spirig products containing chemicals.Also for such products a number of preventive Pre-registrations have been made by Spirig at ECHA.
The raw chemicals compositions / components used by Spirig for the manufacture of Spirig products are produced in large quantities within the EEC territory by various chemical supply houses. The supply of raw chemicals to Spirig, be it inside or outside the EEC, will always be guaranteed.
- Function of STPR (Sole Third Party Representative) for Spirig for REACH.
- The STPR is only active for REACH issues.
- The STPR does not have any commercial function.
- The Spirig commercial and technical relations with the customers / clients will continue as established.
The above declaration simplifies your internal up- and downstream REACH communication duties.
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Voucher Programs, Private Schools, and State Tests
Last week, there was something of a kerfuffle over the Thomas B. Fordham Institute's proposal to impose new regulations on voucher and tax-credit scholarship programs. Fordham called for requiring all participating students to take state assessments; mandating public disclosure of those results, school by school, except for schools that enroll fewer than ten total students in tested grades; and requiring schools that enroll a substantial number of students to have their eligibility determined by how their students perform on state tests.
Fordham vice president Mike Petrilli explained, "Bad schools happen. They happen in the public sector, the charter sector, and, yes, the private sector. And... the answer cannot be 'let the market figure it out.' Because it hasn't, and it won't--and somebody must."
The proposal drew strong objections from an array of voucher proponents. University of Arkansas professor Jay Greene argued, "Testing requirements hurt choice because test results fail to capture most of the benefits produced by choice schools... a series of rigorous studies have found large long-term benefits for students able to attend schools of choice even when short-term test results show little or no benefit... Choice schools cause students to graduate high school and go to college... [and] to more competitive universities at much higher rates. And choice causes those students to enjoy much higher salaries later in life."
The Cato Institute's Andrew Coulson and Jason Bedrick wrote, "By forcing every school to administer the same tests, states would... stifle diversity and innovation. ... The Common Core-aligned tests create a powerful incentive for schools to teach the same concepts in the same order at the same time. This would make it all but impossible for schools to experiment with new ways of tailoring education to meet the needs of individual children" without getting crushed on the aligned assessments.
I've four thoughts on all this:
First, Fordham's stance requires a lot of hair-splitting. After all, this is the same Fordham that has decried the regulatory overreach of No Child Left Behind, critiqued state accountability systems, and fretted about the problems with traditional school system governance. It's theoretically possible to make those claims and still turn around and argue that voucher programs need much more test-based accountability and state regulation, but it does presuppose that policymakers have a Goldilocks-like ability to find the "just right" solution. Color me skeptical.
Second, I share Greene's key concern about the problems with relying too narrowly on reading and math scores to judge school quality. However, and it's a big "however," I don't blame Fordham or choice skeptics for having problems with Greene's argument. After all, many choice advocates have long slammed districts and promoted school choice by pointing to reading and math scores. I've got a lot of sympathy for those who feel like Greene's position constitutes something of a bait-and-switch, with choice advocates are changing the rules when it suits them.
A similar point arises with regard to another Greene criticism. In the column quoted above, he observed, "The only piece of evidence that Fordham presents to support the claim that state testing requirements improve performance at choice schools is the finding that scores rose when Milwaukee private choice schools were required to take the high stakes state test. But as Pat Wolf, one of the authors of that study, noted -- the score increase may well be just an artifact of private choice schools deciding to start prepping students for that high-stakes test now that they were required to take it. In other words, Fordham is confusing real learning increases with test manipulation." Now, it's a terrific point, but it again can feel like choice advocates are changing the rules. After all, the same point can be made about the research suggesting that district schools in Florida had higher test scores when at risk of losing students to vouchers under the state's accountability system. Yet, in that case, choice advocates don't see evidence of possible "manipulation," but of choice's ability to make schools improve.
Third, the Fordham report is smart and polished enough, but feels surprisingly naïve about the realities of the legislative process and regulatory creep. The folks at Fordham are smart and savvy enough to know that regulation has a way of expanding. I don't see anything in their proposal that reassures on that score. Once there's a precedent that voucher students in private schools should be subjected to state assessments, what's to stop a well-intentioned, enterprising legislator from suggesting those schools really ought to have certified teachers, a state-approved curriculum, state-approved facilities, a state-approved plan of emergency services, or whatnot? Absent compelling limits, it's all too easy to imagine legislators or state education officials imposing such seemingly sensible, innocuous measures. The result would be an open invitation to bureaucratization.
Fourth, if you care, where do I come down on this? I accept the principle that Fordham is espousing: that when schools take public funds to educate students, it's reasonable to ask that they be more transparent about performance--and perhaps to base eligibility on certain agreed-upon performance outcomes. But I'm real concerned about relying too heavily on reading and math scores, especially given the presence of the Common Core. And I'm hugely concerned about opening the door to increasing levels of regulation and state interference in school operations. Fordham's report didn't give me any reassurance on either count. In the end, while I'm with Fordham in principle, for the moment, that leaves me closer to Greene, Coulson, Bedrick, et al.


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What a difference four years make. In addition to going from "already gorgeous" to "even gorgeouser," the Michelle Obama's new Vogue cover (on newsstands March 26) is considerably more...relaxed, let's say, compared to her first appearance in 2009. And why wouldn't she be happily exhaling? Her job certainly hasn't gotten any easier, but after the first four years on the FLOTUS treadmill, Anna Wintour is a cakewalk. Moreover, the hair may change, but the arms stay the same. The overall effect is bangin' (no pun intended).
If you recall, her hubby also made the transition from "serious business" to a more relaxed, "I got this."
Call it the "second term effect." It's a good look for both of them.


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You must be the global administrator in the global zone to perform this procedure.
Become superuser, or assume the Primary Administrator role.
To create the role and assign the role to a user, see Using the Solaris Management Tools With RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.
Use the zlogin command with the -C option and the name of the zone, my-zone in this procedure.
global# zlogin -C my-zone
From another terminal window, boot the zone.
global# zoneadm -z my-zone boot
You will see a display similar to the following in the zlogin window:
[NOTICE: Zone booting up]
The first time you log in to the console, you are prompted to answer a series of questions. Your screen will look similar to this:
SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic 64-bit Copyright 1983-2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Use is subject to license terms. Hostname: my-zone Loading smf(5) service descriptions: Select a Language 1. English 2. es 2. fr Please make a choice (0 - 1), or press h or ? for help: Select a Locale 1. English (C - 7-bit ASCII) 2. Canada (English) (UTF-8) 4. U.S.A. (UTF-8) 5. U.S.A. (en_US.ISO8859-1) 6. U.S.A. (en_US.ISO8859-15) 7. Go Back to Previous Screen Please make a choice (0 - 9), or press h or ? for help: What type of terminal are you using? 1) ANSI Standard CRT 2) DEC VT52 3) DEC VT100 4) Heathkit 19 5) Lear Siegler ADM31 6) PC Console 7) Sun Command Tool 8) Sun Workstation 9) Televideo 910 10) Televideo 925 11) Wyse Model 50 12) X Terminal Emulator (xterms) 13) CDE Terminal Emulator (dtterm) 14) Other Type the number of your choice and press Return: 13 . . .
For the complete list of questions you must answer, see Internal Zone Configuration.
(Optional) If you are not using two windows as described in step 3, you might have missed the initial prompt for configuration information. If you see the following system message at zone login instead of a prompt:
[connected to zone zonename console]
Press Return to display the prompt again.
If you enter an incorrect response and try to restart the configuration, you might experience difficulty when you attempt the process again. This occurs because the sysidtools can store your previous responses.
If this happens, use the following workaround from the global zone to restart the configuration process.
global# zlogin -S zonename /usr/sbin/sys-unconfig
For more information on the sys-unconfig command, see the sys-unconfig(1M) man page.


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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The San Francisco Giants finally got their offense going, and they needed it to survive another shaky performance from their bullpen.
Buster Posey got four hits, Andrew McCutchen homered against his former team and the San Francisco Giants defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 13-10 on Friday night.
"They just started swinging with I think more authority," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said.
The Giants had lost three in a row and Pittsburgh had won three straight.
Posey broke out of a 0-for-13 stretch with his second four-hit game in less than two weeks. All four hits came in the first four innings as the Giants built a 10-2 lead.
He's the first Giants player with four hits through the first four innings of a game since the team moved to San Francisco in 1958.
Posey and Alen Hanson each drove in three runs. McCutchen hit a leadoff homer and later drew four walks for a San Francisco team that batted .212 and averaged 2.7 runs over its previous six games.
"They were letting it go tonight," Bochy said. "It was good to see them have some success, I mean we've been shut down, we've been due for a game like this where we break it open, even though they came back and made it a game. "
Francisco Cervelli drove in five runs with three hits for the Pirates. His 11th home run of the season and fourth career grand slam, off reliever Pierce Johnson, closed Pittsburgh within 11-7 in the seventh inning.
Adeiny Hechavarria, playing his second game since being traded from Tampa Bay to Pittsburgh, went 2 for 2 with a home run.
Giants starter Derek Holland (6-8) gave up five runs in 6 1/3 innings.
A big night from the offense allowed him to be more aggressive.
"It's huge," Holland said. "The offense is putting in the work, and I'm little bit upset with myself. They put the runs up, I've got to keep the momentum on our side."
Clay Holmes (1-2) was tagged for seven runs in 2 2/3 innings in his third career start.
"Our command was pretty inconsistent throughout the evening," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. "Clayton was so good the last time out. His fastball command was off and that complicates things."
Giants third baseman Evan Longoria was hit in the back by a 97 mph fastball by Pirates reliever Kyle Crick in the bottom of the seventh. Longoria initially stayed in the game but was pulled in the top of the eighth. Longoria said he felt fine after the game, but wasn't certain about his playing status for Saturday's game.
"I don't think he had intent," Longoria said. "He threw a couple more to the backstop and almost hit (Joe Panik), he just obviously didn't have a very good feel for where the ball was going tonight."
Pirates OF Gregory Polanco struck out as a pinch-hitter. Manager Clint Hurdle said Polanco will get another rest day in Sunday's series finale.
Giants: 1B Brandon Belt (hyperextended right knee) will start a rehab assignment with Triple-A Sacramento on Saturday, manager Bruce Bochy said. If all goes well, Belt could join the team for next week's series against the Dodgers in Los Angeles, which starts Monday. … RHP Johnny Cueto, who underwent Tommy John surgery earlier this month, was moved to the 60-day DL. RHP Casey Kelly was selected to the Giants' Major League roster in a corresponding move before Friday's game. … RHP Derek Law was optioned to Triple-A Sacramento.
RHP Trevor Williams (9-8, 3.88 ERA) will pitch Saturday for the Pirates. He has a 2.25 ERA without a decision in two career starts against the Giants. LHP Ty Blach (6-6, 4.28) will pitch for the Giants.
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The Israeli military prosecutor has indicted three Golani Brigade soldiers on charges of looting during the Israeli army's aggression last summer in Gaza.
The three men are accused of stealing 2,240 shekels ($605) from a home in the Shuaiyeh neighborhood of Gaza City soon after Israel began its ground invasion in the Strip. The case is the first of the Israeli military police's 19 investigations into the 50-day long aggression, dubbed Operation Protective Edge, to produce indictments.
Other cases reportedly being investigated include alleged instances of theft, looting, beating Palestinian detainees and using them as human shields, firing at ambulances, and wounding a Palestinian woman carrying a white flag.
One soldier was charged with theft, and another two were charged with obstruction of justice. The Golani soldier accused of theft was arrested in August on suspicion of stealing cash from a house in Shujaiyeh. Israel's leading English-language daily Haaretz reported that investigators accused the soldier of taking the money on July 20, just a few hours after the Battle of Shujaiyeh, also known as the Shujaiyeh massacre.
The military police are also looking into a number of operational incidents, including the shelling of a United Nations school, the killing of four children on the seashore near the Gaza port, and the bombing of a home in the southern city of Khan Younis that killed 27 people.
The military advocate general, Maj. Gen. Danny Efroni, told Haaretz earlier this month that the Israeli army would not indict anyone "for a reasonable error in the midst of fighting like, for example, if you shoot to wound a terrorist and by mistake you hit a civilian."
"We will not put soldiers on trial only to satisfy the media, which is disturbed by the large number of civilians killed in the war."
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GreatandWiseTrixie wrote:Arminius wrote:And what are your "ideals"?
My ideals, is that humans are mostly retards, and they need their DNA changed.
Stephen C Pedersen wrote:Pythagoras was the first to call himself a philosopher. Did he say this because he had a big head? No, he had a romantic attachment to it. He couldn't live without it. I am the same way. No matter how tough it is, no matter how many hard heads I come across, or how many people don't believe in the enterprise, I too can't live without it. It's something that I engage with on a daily basis. It brings meaning to my life. I don't do it for consolation, all due respect to Boethius, but I do it for the free play of ideas, and as a way of life. Doubt plagues my most cherished beliefs, and no matter how centered my ideas are I still must follow the golden cord of reason wherever it may take me. I am a philosopher, not because I stand among the greatest, but because I'm genuinely in love with it.
Stephen C Pedersen wrote:Pythagoras was the first to call himself a philosopher. Did he say this because he had a big head? No, he had a romantic attachment to it. He couldn't live without it. I am the same way. No matter how tough it is, no matter how many hard heads I come across, or how many people don't believe in the enterprise, I too can't live without it. It's something that I engage with on a daily basis. It brings meaning to my life. I don't do it for consolation, all due respect to Boethius, but I do it for the free play of ideas, and as a way of life. Doubt plagues my most cherished beliefs, and no matter how centered my ideas are I still must follow the golden cord of reason wherever it may take me. I am a philosopher, not because I stand among the greatest, but because I'm genuinely in love with it.
HaHaHa wrote:Philosophy is one of my greatest passions in life and it has been of great benefit for me in my personal life keeping myself mentally sharp during some of the most difficult portions of it.
Arminius wrote:HaHaHa wrote:Philosophy is one of my greatest passions in life and it has been of great benefit for me in my personal life keeping myself mentally sharp during some of the most difficult portions of it.
But would you therefore say that you "love philosophy"?
It remains, now, to say a word as to the morphology of a history of philosophy.
There is no such thing as Philosophy "in itself". Every Culture has its own philosophy, which is a part of its total symbolic expression and forms with its posing of problems and methods of thought an intellectual ornamentation that is closely related to that of architecture and the arts of form. From the high and distant standpoint it matters very little what "truths" thinkers have managed to formulate in words within their respective schools, for, here as in every great art, it is the schools, conventions and repertory of forms that are the basic elements. Infinitely more important than the answers are the questions – the choice of them, the inner form of them. For it is the particular way in which a macrocosm presents itself to the understanding man of a particular Culture that determines a priori the whole necessity of asking them, and the way in which they are asked.
The Classical and the Faustian Culture, and equally the Indian and the Chinese, have each their proper ways of asking, and further, in each case, all the great questions have been posed at the very outset. There is no modern problem that the Gothic did not see and bring into form, no Hellenistic problem that did not of necessity come up for the old Orphic temple-teachings.
It is of no importance whether the subtilizing turn of mind expresses itself here in oral tradition and there in books, whether such books are personal creations of an "I" as they are amongst ourselves or anonymous fluid masses of texts as in India, and whether the result is a set of comprehensible systems or, as in Egypt, glimpses of the last secrets are veiled in expressions of art and ritual. Whatever the variations, the general course of philosophies as organisms is the same. At the beginning of every springtime period, philosophy, intimately related to great architecture and religion, is the intellectual echo of a mighty metaphysical living, and its task is to establish critically the sacred causality in the world-image seen with the eye of faith. The basic distinctions, not only of science but also of philosophy, are dependent on, not divorced from, the elements of the corresponding religion. In this springtime, thinkers are, not merely in spirit but actually in status, priests. Such were the Schoolmen and the Mystics of the Gothic and the Vedic as of the Homeric (1) and the Early-Arabian centuries. With the setting-in of the Late period, and not earlier, philosophy becomes urban and worldly, frees itself from subservience to religion and even dares to make that religion itself the object of epistemological criticism. The great theme of Brahman, Ionic and Baroque philosophies is the problem of knowing. The urban spirit turns to look at itself, in order to establish the proposition that there is no higher judgment-seat of knowing beyond itself, and with that thought draws nearer to higher mathematics and instead of priests we have men of the world, statesmen and merchants and discoverers, tested in high places and by high tasks, whose ideas about thought rest upon deep experience of life. Of such are the series of great thinkers from Thales to Protagoras and from Bacon to Hume, and the series of pre-Confucian and pre-Buddha thinkers of whom we hardly know more than the fact that they existed.
(1) It is possible that the peculiar style of Heraclitus, who came of a priestly family of the temple of Ephesus, is an example of the form in which the old Orphic wisdom was orally transmitted.
At the end of such series stand Kant and Aristotle (2), and after them there set in the Civilization-philosophies. In every Culture, thought mounts to a climax, setting the questions at the outset and answering them with ever-increasing force of intellectual expression – and, as we have said before, ornamental significance – until exhausted; and then it passes into a decline in which the problems of knowing are in every respect stale repetitions of no significance. There is a metaphysical period, originally of a religious and finally of a rationalistic cast – in which thought and life still contain something of chaos, an unexploited fund that enables them effectively to create – and an ethical period in which life itself, now become megalopolitan, appears to call for inquiry and has to turn the still available remainder of philosophical creative-power on to its own conduct and maintenance. In the one period life reveals itself, the other has life as its object. The one is "theoretical" (contemplative) in the grand sense, the other perforce practical. Even the Kantian system is in its deepest characters contemplated in the first instance and only afterwards logically and systematically formulated and ordered.
(2) Here we are considering only the scholastic side. The mystic side, from which Pythagoras and Leibniz were not very far, reached its culminations in Plato and Goethe, and in our own case it has been extended beyond Goethe by the Romantics, Hegel and Nietzsche, whereas Scholasticism exhausted itself with Kant – and Aristotle – and degenerated thereafter into a routine-profession.
We see this evidenced in Kant's attitude to mathematics. No one is a genuine metaphysician who has not penetrated into the form-world of numbers, who has not lived them into himself as a symbolism. And in fact it was the great thinkers of the Baroque who created the analytical mathematic, and the same is true, mutatis mutandis, of the great pre-Socratics and Plato . Descartes and Leibniz stand beside Newton and Gauß, Pythagoras and Plato by Archytas and Archimedes, at the summits of mathematical development. But already in Kant the philosopher has become, as mathematician, negligible. Kant no more penetrated to the last subtleties of the Calculus as it stood in his own day than he absorbed the axiomatic of Leibniz. The same may be said of Aristotle. And thenceforward there is no philosopher who is counted as a mathematician. Fichte, Hegel and the Romantics were entirely unmathematical, and so were Zeno (3) and Epicurus. Schopenhauer in this field is weak to the point of crudity, and of Nietzsche the less said the better. When the form-world of numbers passed out of its ken, philosophy lost a great convention, and since then it has lacked not only structural strength but also what may be called the grand style of thinking. Schopenhauer himself admitted that he was a hand-to-mouth thinker (Gelegenheitsdenker).
(3) Zeno the Stoic, not to be confused with Zeno of Elea, whose mathematical fineness has already been alluded to. - Translator.
With the decline of metaphysics, ethics has outgrown its status as a subordinate element in abstract theory. Henceforth it is philosophy, the other divisions being absorbed into it and practical living becoming the centre of consideration. The passion of pure thought sinks down. Metaphysics, mistress yesterday, is handmaid now; all it is required to do is to provide a foundation for practical views. And the foundation becomes more and more superfluous. It becomes the custom to despise and mock at the metaphysical, the unpractical, the philosophy of "stone for bread". In Schopenhauer it is for the sake of the fourth book that the first three exist at all. Kant merely thought that it was the same with him; in reality, pure and not applied reason is still his centre of creation. There is exactly the same difference in Classical philosophy before and after Aristotle – on the one hand, a grandly conceived Cosmos to which a formal ethic adds almost nothing, and, on the other, ethics as such, as programme, as necessity with a desultory ad hoc metaphysic for basis. And the entire absence of logical scruple with, which Nietzsche, for instance, dashes off such theories makes no difference whatever to our appreciation of his philosophy proper.
It is well known (4) that Schopenhauer did not proceed to Pessimism from his metaphysic but, on the contrary, was led to develop his system by the pessimism that fell upon him in his seventeenth year. Shaw, a most significant witness, observes in his "Quintessence of Ibsenism" that one may quite well accept Schopenhauer's philosophy and reject his metaphysics – therein quite accurately discriminating between that which makes him the first thinker of the new age and that which is included because an obsolete tradition held it to be indispensable in a complete philosophy. No one would undertake to divide Kant thus, and the attempt would not succeed if it were made. But with Nietzsche one has no difficulty in perceiving that his "philosophy" was through-and-through an inner and very early experience, while he covered his metaphysical requirements rapidly and often imperfectly by the aid of a few books, and never managed to state even his ethical theory with any exactitude. Just the same overlay of living seasonable ethical thought on a stratum of metaphysics required by convention (but in fact superfluous) is to be found in Epicurus and the Stoics. We need have no doubt after this as to what is the essence of a Civilization-philosophy.
(4) Neue Paralipomena, § 656.
Strict metaphysics has exhausted its possibilities. The world-city has definitely overcome the land, and now its spirit fashions a theory proper to itself, directed of necessity outward, soulless. Henceforward, we might with some justice replace the word "soul" by the word "brain". And, since in the Western "brain" the will to power, the tyrannical set towards the Future and purpose to organize everybody and everything, demands practical expression, ethics, as it loses touch more and more with its metaphysical past, steadily assumes a social-ethical and social-economic character. The philosophy of the present that starts from Hegel and Schopenhauer is, so far as it represents the spirit of the age (which, e.g., Lotze and Herbart do not), a critique of society.
The attention that the Stoic gave to his own body, the Westerner devotes to the body social. It is not chance that Hegelian philosophy has given rise to Socialism (Marx, Engels), to Anarchism (Stirner) and to the problem-posing social drama (Hebbel). Socialism is political economy converted into the ethical and, moreover, the imperative mood. So long as a metaphysic existed (that is, till Kant) political economy remained a science. But as soon as "philosophy" became synonymous with practical ethics, it replaced mathematics as the basis of thought about the world – hence the importance of Cousin, Bentham, Comte, Mill and Spencer.
To choose his material at will is not given to the philosopher, neither is the material of philosophy always and everywhere the same. There are no eternal questions, but only questions arising out of the feelings of a particular being and posed by it. Alles Vergängliche ist nur ein Gleichnis applies also to every genuine philosophy as the intellectual expression of this being, as the actualization of spiritual possibilities in a form-world of concepts, judgments and thought-structures comprised in the living phenomenon of its author. Any and every such philosophy is, from the first word to the last, from its most abstract proposition to its most telltale trait of personality, a thing-become, mirrored over from soul into world, from the realm of freedom into that of necessity, from the immediate-living into the dimensional-logical; and on that very account it is mortal, and its life has prescribed rhythm and duration. The choice of them, therefore, is subject to strict necessity. Each epoch has its own, important for itself and for no other epoch. It is the mark of the born philosopher that he sees his epoch and his theme with a sure eye. Apart from this, there is nothing of any importance in philosophical production – merely technical knowledge and the industry requisite for the building up of systematic and conceptual subtleties.
Consequently, the distinctive philosophy of the 19th Century is only Ethics and social critique in the productive sense – nothing more. And consequently, again, its most important representatives (apart from actual practitioners) are the dramatists. They are the real philosophers of Faustian activism, and compared with them not one of the lecture-room philosophers and systematics counts at all. All that these unimportant pedants have done for us is, so to write and rewrite the history of philosophy (and what history! – collections of dates and "results") that no one today knows what the history of philosophy is or what it might be.
Thanks to this, the deep organic unity in the thought of this epoch has never yet been perceived. The essence of it, from the philosophical point of view, can be precised by asking the question: In how far is Shaw the pupil and fulfiller of Nietzsche? The question is put in no ironic spirit. Shaw is the one thinker of eminence who has consistently advanced in the same direction as that of the true Nietzsche – namely, productive criticism of the Western morale – while following out as poet the last implications of Ibsen and devoting the balance of the artistic creativeness that is in him to practical discussions.
Save in so far as the belated Romanticist in him has determined the style, sound and attitude of his philosophy, Nietzsche is in every respect a disciple of the materialistic decades. That which drew him with such passion to Schopenhauer was (not that he himself or anyone else was conscious of it) that element of Schopenhauer's doctrine by which he destroyed the great metaphysic and (without meaning to do so) parodied his master Kant; that is to say, the modification of all deep ideas of the Baroque age into tangible and mechanistic notions. Kant speaks in inadequate words, which hide a mighty and scarcely apprehensible intuition, an intuition of the world as appearance or phenomenon. In Schopenhauer this becomes the world as brain-phenomenon (Gehirnphänomen). The change-over from tragic philosophy to philosophical plebeianism is complete. It will be enough to cite one passage. In "The World as Will and Idea" Schopenhauer says: "The will, as thing-in-itself, constitutes the inner, true and indestructible essence of the man; in itself, however, it is without consciousness. For the consciousness is conditioned by the intellect and this is a mere accident of our being, since it is a function of the brain, and that again (with its dependent nerves and spinal cord) is a mere fruit, a product, nay, even a parasite of the rest of the organism, inasmuch as it does not intervene directly in the latter's activities but only serves a purpose of self-preservation by regulating its relations with the outer world." Here we have exactly the fundamental position of the flattest materialism. It was not for nothing that Schopenhauer, like Rousseau before him, studied the English sensualists. From them he learned to misread Kant in the spirit of megalopolitan utilitarian modernity. The intellect as instrument of the will-to-life (5), as weapon in the struggle for existence, the ideas brought to grotesque expression by Shaw in "Man and Superman" – it was because this was his view of the world that Schopenhauer became the fashionable philosopher when Darwin's main work was published in 1859. In contrast to Schelling, Hegel and Fichte, he was a philosopher, and the only philosopher, whose metaphysical propositions could be absorbed with ease by intellectual mediocrity. The clarity of which he was so proud threatened at every moment to reveal itself as triviality. While retaining enough of formula to produce an atmosphere of profundity and exclusiveness, he presented the civilized view of the world complete and assimilable. His system is anticipated Darwinism, and the speech of Kant and the concepts of the Indians are simply clothing. In his book "Über den Willen in der Natur" (1835) we find already the struggle for self-preservation in Nature, the human intellect as master-weapon in that struggle and sexual love as unconscious selection according to biological interest. (6)
(5) Even the modern idea that unconscious and impulsive acts of life are completely efficient, while intellect can only bungle, is to be found in Schopenhauer (Vol. II, cap. 30).
(6) In the chapter "Zur Metaphysik der Geschlechtsliebe" (II, 44) the idea of natural selection for the preservation of the genus is anticipated in full.
It is the view that Darwin (via Malthus) brought to bear with irresistible success in the field of zoology. The economic origin of Darwinism is shown by the fact that the system deduced from the similarities between men and the higher animals ceases to fit even at the level of the plant-world and becomes positively absurd as soon as it is seriously attempted to apply it with its will-tendency (natural selection, mimicry) to primitive organic forms. Proof, to the Darwinian, means to the ordering and pictorial presentation of a selection of facts so that they conform to his historico-dynamic basic feeling of "Evolution". Darwinism – that is to say, that totality of very varied and discrepant ideas, in which the common factor is merely the application of the causality principle to living things, which therefore is a method and not a result – was known in all details to the 18th Century. Rousseau was championing the ape-man theory as early as 1754. What Darwin originated is only the "Manchester School" system, and it is this latent political element in it that accounts for its •popularity.
The spiritual unity of the century is manifest enough here. From Schopenhauer to Shaw, everyone has been, without being aware of it, bringing the same principle into form. Everyone (including even those who, like Hebbel, knew nothing of Darwin) is a derivative of the evolution-idea – and of the shallow civilized and not the deep Goethian form of it at that – whether he issues it with a biological or an economic imprint. There is evolution, too, in the evolution-idea itself, which is Faustian through and through, which displays (in sharpest contrast to Aristotle's timeless entelechy-idea) all our passionate urgency towards infinite future, our will and sense of aim which is so immanent in, so specific to, the Faustian spirit as to be the a priori form rather than the discovered principle of our Nature-picture. And in the evolution of evolution we find the same change taking place as elsewhere, the turn of the Culture to the Civilization. In Goethe evolution is upright, in Darwin it is flat; in Goethe organic, in Darwin mechanical; in Goethe an experience and emblem, in Darwin a matter of cognition and law. To Goethe evolution meant inward fulfilment, to Darwin it meant "Progress". Darwin's struggle for existence, which he read into Nature and not out of it, is only the plebeian form of that primary feeling which in Shakespeare's tragedies moves the great realities against one another; but what Shakespeare inwardly saw, felt and actualized in his figures as destiny, Darwinism comprehends as causal connexion and formulates as a superficial system of utilities. And it is this system and not this primary feeling that is the basis of the utterances of "Zarathustra", the tragedy of "Ghosts", the problems of the "Ring of the Nibelungs". Only, it was with terror that Schopenhauer, the first of his line, perceived what his own knowledge meant – that is the root of his pessimism, and the "Tristan" music of his adherent Wagner is its highest expression – whereas the late men, and foremost among them Nietzsche, face it with enthusiasm, though it is true, the enthusiasm is sometimes rather forced.
Nietzsche's breach with Wagner – that last product of the German spirit over which greatness broods – marks his silent change of school-allegiance, his unconscious step from Schopenhauer to Darwin, from the metaphysical to the physiological formulation of the same world-feeling, from the denial to the affirmation of the aspect that in fact is common to both, the one seeing as will-to-life what the other regards as struggle for existence. In his "Schopenhauer als Erzieher" he still means by evolution an inner ripening, but the Superman is the product of evolution as machinery. And "Zarathustra" is ethically the outcome of an unconscious protest against "Parsifal" – which artistically entirely governs it – of the rivalry (Nietzsche's jealousy, envy) of one evangelist for another.
But Nietzsche was also a Socialist without knowing it. Not his catch-words, but his instincts, were Socialistic, practical, directed to that welfare of mankind that Goethe and Kant never spent a thought upon. Materialism, Socialism and Darwinism are only artificially and on the surface separable. It was this that made it possible for Shaw in the third act of, Man and Superman (one of the most important and significant of the works that issued from the transition) to obtain, by giving just a small and indeed perfectly logical turn to the tendencies of "master-morale" and the production of the Superman, the specific maxims of his own Socialism. Here Shaw was only expressing with remorseless clarity and full consciousness of the commonplace, what the uncompleted portion of the Zarathustra would have said with Wagnerian theatricality and woolly romanticism. All that we are concerned to discover in Nietzsche's reasoning is its practical bases and consequences, which proceed of necessity from the structure of modern public life. He moves amongst vague ideas like "new values", "Superman", "Sinn der Erde", and declines or fears to shape them more precisely. Shaw does it. Nietzsche observes that the Darwinian idea of the Superman evokes the notion of breeding, and stops there, leaves it at a sounding phrase. Shaw pursues the question – for there is no object in talking about it if nothing is going to be done about it – asks how it is to be achieved, and from that comes to demand the transformation of mankind into a stud-farm. But this is merely the conclusion implicit in the Zarathustra, which Nietzsche was not bold enough, or was too fastidious, to draw. If we do talk of systematic breeding – a completely materialistic and utilitarian notion – we must be prepared to answer the questions, who shall breed what, where and how? But Nietzsche, too romantic to face the very prosaic social consequences and to expose poetic ideas to the test of facts, omits to say that his whole doctrine, as a derivative of Darwinism, presupposes Socialism and, moreover, socialistic compulsion as the means; that any systematic breeding of a class of higher men requires as condition precedent a strictly socialistic ordering of society; and that this "Dionysiac" idea, as it involves a common action and is not simply the private affair of detached thinkers, is democratic, turn it how you may. It is the climax of the ethical force of "Thou shalt "; to impose upon the world the form of his will, Faustian man sacrifices even himself.
The breeding of the Superman follows from the notion of "selection". Nietzsche was an unconscious pupil of Darwin from the time that he wrote aphorisms, but Darwin himself had remoulded the evolution-ideas of the 18th Century according to the Malthusian tendencies of political economy, which he projected on the higher animal-world. Malthus had studied the cotton industry in Lancashire, and already in 1857 we have the whole system, only applied to men instead of to beasts, in Buckle's History of English Civilization.
In other words, the master-morale of this last of the Romantics is derived – strangely perhaps but very significantly – from that source of all intellectual modernity, the atmosphere of the English factory. The Machiavellism that commended itself to Nietzsche as a Renaissance phenomenon is something closely (one would have supposed, obviously) akin to Darwin's notion of "mimicry". It is in fact that of which Marx (that other famous disciple of Malthus) treats in his Das Kapital, the bible of political (not ethical) Socialism. That is the genealogy of "Herrenmoral". The Will-to-Power, transferred to the realistic, political and economic domain, finds its expression in Shaw's "Major Barbara". No doubt Nietzsche, as a personality, stands at the culmination of this series of ethical philosophers, but here Shaw the party politician reaches up to his level as a thinker. The will-to-power is to-day represented by the two poles of public life – the worker-class and the big money-and-brain men – far more effectually than it ever was by a Borgia. The millionaire Undershaft of Shaw's best comedy is a Superman, though Nietzsche the Romanticist would not have recognized his ideal in such a figure. Nietzsche is for ever speaking of transvaluations of all values, of a philosophy of the Future (which, incidentally, is merely the Western, and not the Chinese or the African future), but when the mists of his thought do come in from the Dionysiac distance and condense into any tangible form, the will-to-power appears to him in the guise of dagger-and-poison and never in that of strike and "deal". And yet he says that the idea first came to him when he saw the Prussian regiments marching to battle in 1870.
The drama, in this epoch, is no longer poetry in the old sense of the Culture days, but a form of agitation, debate and demonstration. The stage has become a moralizing institution. Nietzsche himself often thought of putting his ideas in the dramatic form. Wagner's Nibelung poetry, more especially the first draft of it (1850), expresses his social-revolutionary ideas, and even when, after a circuitous course under influences artistic and non-artistic, he has completed the "Ring", his Siegfried is still a symbol of the Fourth Estate, his Brünhilde still the "free woman". The sexual selection of which the "Origin of Species" enunciated the theory in 1859, was finding its musical expression at the very same time in the third act of Siegfried" and in Tristan". It is no accident that Wagner, Hebbel and Ibsen, all practically simultaneously, set to work to dramatize the Nibelung material. Hebbel, making the acquaintance in Paris of Engels's writings, expresses (in a letter of April 2., 1844) his surprise at finding that his own conceptions of the social principle of his age, which he was then intending to exemplify in a drama Zu irgend einer Zeit, coincided precisely with those of the future Communist Manifesto". And, upon first making the acquaintance of Schopenhauer (letter of March 2.9, 1857), he is equally surprised by the affinity that he finds between the Welt als Wille und Vorstellung and tendencies upon which he had based his Holofernes and his Herodes und Mariamne. Hebbel's diaries, of which the most important portion belongs to the years 1835-1845, were (though he did not know it) one of the deepest philosophical efforts of the century. It would be no surprise to find whole sentences of it in Nietzsche, who never knew him and did not always come up to his level.
The actual and effective philosophy of the 19th Century, then, has as its one genuine theme the Will-to-Power. It considers this Will-to-Power in civilized-intellectual, ethical, or social forms and presents it as will-to-life, as life-force, as practical-dynamical principle, as idea, and as dramatic figure. (The period that is closed by Shaw corresponds to the period 350-150 in the Classical.) The rest of the 19th-century philosophy is, to use Schopenhauer's phrase, "professors" philosophy by philosophy-professors". The real landmarks are these:
1819. Schopenhauer, Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung. The will to life is for the first time put as the only reality (original force, Urkraft); but, older idealist influences still being potent, it is put there to be negatived (zur Verneinung empfohlen).
1836. Schopenhauer, Über den Willen in der Natur. Anticipation of Darwinism, but in metaphysical disguise.
1840. Proudhon, Quest-ce que la Propriété, basis of Anarchism. Comte, Cours de philosophie positive; the formula "order and progress".
1841. Hebbel, "Judith", first dramatic conception of the "New Woman" and the "Superman". Feuerbach, Das Wesen des Christenthums.
1844. Engels, Umriß einer Kritik des Nationalokonomie, foundation of the materialistic conception of history. Hebbel, Maria Magdalena, the first social drama.
1847. Marx, Misère de la Philosophie (synthesis of Hegel and Malthus). These are the epochal years in which economics begins to dominate social ethic and biology.
1848. Wagner's "Death of Siegfried"; Siegfried as social-ethical revolutionary, the Fafnir hoard as symbol of Capitalism.
1850. Wagner's Kunst und Klima; the sexual problem.
1850-1858. Wagner's, Hebbel's and Ibsen's Nibelung poetry.
1859 (year of symbolic coincidences). Darwin, "Origin of Species" (application of economics to biology). Wagner's "Tristan". Marx, Zur Kritik der politischen Okonomie.
1863. J. S. Mill, "Utilitarianism".
1865. Dühring, Wert des Lebens – a work which is rarely heard of, but which exercised the greatest influence upon the succeeding generation.
1867. Ibsen, "Brand". Marx, Das Kapital.
1878. Wagner, "Parsifal". First dissolution of materialism into mysticism.
1879. Ibsen, "Nora".
1881. Nietzsche, Morgenrdthe; transition from Schopenhauer to Darwin, morale as biological phenomenon.
1883. Nietzsche, Also sprach Zarathustra; the Will-to-Power, but in Romantic disguise.
1886. Ibsen, "Rosmersholm". Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Böse.
1887-1888. Strindberg, "Fadren" and "Froken Julie".
From 1890 the conclusion of the epoch approaches. The religious works of Strindberg and the symbolical of Ibsen.
1896. Ibsen, "John Gabriel Borkman": Nietzsche's Übermensch. 1898. Strindberg, "Till Damascus".
From 1900 the last phenomena.
1903. Weininger, Geschlecht und Charakter; the only serious attempt to revive Kant within this epoch, by referring him to Wagner and Ibsen.
1903. Shaw, "Man and Superman"; final synthesis of Darwin and Nietzsche.
1905. Shaw, "Major Barbara"; the type of the Superman referred back to its economic origins.
With this, the ethical period exhausts itself as the metaphysical had done. Ethical Socialism, prepared by Fichte, Hegel, and Humboldt, was at its zenith of passionate greatness about the middle of the 19th Century, and at the end thereof it had reached the stage of repetitions. The 20th Century, while keeping the word Socialism, has replaced an ethical philosophy that only Epigoni suppose to be capable of further development, by a praxis of economic everyday questions. The ethical disposition of the West will remain "socialistic" but its theory has ceased to be a problem. And there remains the possibility of a third and last stage of Western philosophy, that of a physiognomic scepticism. The secret of the world appears successively as a knowledge problem, a valuation problem and a form problem. Kant saw Ethics as an object of knowledge, the 19th Century saw it as an object of valuation. The Sceptic would deal with both simply as the historical expression of a Culture.
Logic comes first, else there can be no language.
Logic is the consistency required for a language (or any thinking) to function at all, "A is A".
demoralized wrote:I don't love philosophy. I just like deep thoughts sometimes
Arminius wrote:Do I really love philosophy? Love? No, I don't love philosophy, but I like philosophy. Probably I like philosophy even very much, but I don't love philosophy.
Notice that the accentuation is on the word "love"!
One can love the next related and other next, but not the philosophy. Maybe I've merely mentioned a problem that belongs to the contrastive linguistics, because the English verb "love" is not exactly the same as e.g. the German verb "lieben", and the English substantive "love" is not exactly the same as e.g. the German substantive "Liebe", but even if it is so, it would also be a philosophical problem. The term "love" can refer to people, things, and everything else, but it doesn't do it to the same extent or with the same intensity in all languages. What do you think, if someone says "I love stones" instead of "I like stones"? If "love" and "like" become the same or almost the same - I think that's the current semantic development of these two words -, then is is quite a loss of language and philosophy.
demoralized wrote:I don't love philosophy. I just like deep thoughts sometimes
Arminius wrote:demoralized wrote:I don't love philosophy. I just like deep thoughts sometimes
Do you mean your own deep thoughts or other deep thoughts too?
James S Saint wrote:demoralized wrote:I don't love philosophy. I just like deep thoughts sometimes
I suspect that you "love" it more than you think. To love is to desire the support and continuation of. I imagine that if the entire thought of philosophy was fading away, you would stand up to reinstate it. That would be "love" (although not to be confused with "being in love").
demoralized wrote:Arminius wrote:demoralized wrote:I don't love philosophy. I just like deep thoughts sometimes
Do you mean your own deep thoughts or other deep thoughts too?
James S Saint wrote:demoralized wrote:I don't love philosophy. I just like deep thoughts sometimes
I suspect that you "love" it more than you think. To love is to desire the support and continuation of. I imagine that if the entire thought of philosophy was fading away, you would stand up to reinstate it. That would be "love" (although not to be confused with "being in love").
Arcturus Descending wrote:Couldn't you say that logic necessitates a high level of consciousness? Do you think that the human being was at the time language was forming a highly conscious and intelligent being?
encode_decode wrote:Arcturus Descending wrote:Couldn't you say that logic necessitates a high level of consciousness? Do you think that the human being was at the time language was forming a highly conscious and intelligent being?
Logic does not necessitate a high level of consciousness - understanding logic requires an awareness of a pre-existing logic.
The brain is able to be logical without language.
Arcturus Descending wrote:encode_decode wrote:Arcturus Descending wrote:Couldn't you say that logic necessitates a high level of consciousness? Do you think that the human being was at the time language was forming a highly conscious and intelligent being?
Logic does not necessitate a high level of consciousness - understanding logic requires an awareness of a pre-existing logic.
I think that I put the cart before the horse here with my previous quote.
It is high consciousness in my book which calls forth logic.
Arcturus Descending wrote:The brain is able to be logical without language.
Well, there is a logical part of our mind.
Hmmm...I am not saying that you are wrong here but can you be sure of that?
Doesn't it require a certain amount of language in order to think cognitively?
Doesn't thinking require language, even if that language is our own thoughts?
Without language, how could logic be interpreted?
I am not sure I expressed that well.
Meno_ wrote:I guess literally it is as hard to bridge the gap now, as it was back in pre logical times.
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First things first. You're going to want to get yourself a sharp utensil. I recommend a knife, but I suppose a fork could do if you're in a bind. You'll need some bread. I prefer the kind that is pre-shaped into the form of hot dogs or hamburgers, but again, any old bread will do if you're up against it.
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