Monday, October 19th, 2020

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11:37a	Darwinism as an adaptation of Calvinism Занятно, как товарищ Фр. П. Йоки увязывает дарвинизм и кальвинизм "Darwin himself was a follower of Malthus, and his system implies Malthusianism as a foundation. /.../ Malthusianism taught that the food-population ratio imposed a continuous struggle for existence among men. This “struggle for existence” became a leading-idea for Darwinism. The other leading ideas of Darwinism are found in Schopenhauer, Erasmus Darwin, Henry Bates, and Herbert Spencer. Schopenhauer in 1835 set forth a Nature-picture containing the struggle for self-preservation, human intellect as a weapon in the struggle, and sexual love as unconscious selection according to the interest of the species. In the 18th century, Erasmus Darwin had postulated adaptation, heredity, struggle, and self-protection as principles of evolution. Bates formulated before Darwin the theory of Mimicry, Spencer the theory of descent, and the powerful tautological catchword “survival of the fittest” to describe the results of the “struggle.” This is only the foreground, for actually the road from Darwin back to Calvin is quite clear: Calvinism is a religious interpretation of the “survival of the fittest” idea, and it calls the fit the “elected.” Darwinism makes this election-process mechanical-profane instead of theological-religious: selection by Nature instead of election by God. It remains purely English in the process, for the national religion of England was an adaptation of Calvinism." (2 Comments | Comment on this)
7:31p	Родольф Сали, основатель кабаре "Черная Кошка", начинал свое богемное житье в Париже, изготовляя предметы религиозной атрибутики https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodolphe_Salis He founded "L'école vibrante" (The Vibrant School), soon renamed the "L'école iriso-subversive de Chicago" (The Chicago Iriso-Subversive School) in order to draw attention to his artistic group. In fact he was earning a living by making stations of the cross and other religious objects, that he and his friends painted. "In fact, it [The School] had the overall intended, but not admitted, immediate aim of making a series of Stations of the Cross to sell at eight and fourteen francs each, in a shop selling religious articles in the Saint Sulpice. The very tedious work was divided between the four "students" according to their different natures. Rene Gilbert painted heads; Wagner hands; Antonio de La Gandara draperies; Salis, finally, backgrounds and landscapes..." In order to combine art and alcoholic beverage, Salis had the idea of creating a café in "the purest style of Louis XII... with a chandelier of wrought iron from the Byzantine period, and where the gentry, the burghers and peasants are now invited to drink absinthe after the usual manner of Victor Hugo and Garibaldi, and hypocras in golden bowls." (1 Comment | Comment on this)
11:35p	Comme la musique et comme la peste http://hegel.ru/sumin.html Таким образом, немецкая философия, философия Гегеля становится «русской идеей» не потому, что она немецкая, а потому, что в немецкой философии весь всемирный историко-философский процесс достиг, наконец, своего предельного напряжения. Разум, являющийся истиной философии, в силу своей объективной развитости достиг своего необходимого выражения. В своей собственной субъективной сфере философской науки разум, наконец, пришел к своему адекватному самопознанию, приобрел форму философской системы, доступной каждому. Именно это обстоятельство обусловливает то, что «судьбой России» становится философия Гегеля. Объективность всемирной истории незамедлительно востребовала эту форму и Россия, оказавшись субъективно самой подготовленной, приняла на себя это великое и тяжкое бремя – быть мировым глашатаем новой формы, быть тем народом, который окажется достаточно безумным для того, чтобы попытаться реализовать в своей собственной истории новое понимание разумного. (4 Comments | Comment on this)

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