After Strange Gods : A Primer of Modern Heresy
A Literary Criticism, Nonfiction, Writing book. Just as I do not see how anyone can expect really to understand Kant...
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Just as I do not see how anyone can expect really to understand Kant and Hegel without knowing the German language and without such an understanding of the German mind as can only be acquired in the society of living Germans, so a fortiori I do not see how anyone can understand Confucius without some knowledge of Chinese and a long frequentation of the best Chinese society. I have the highest respect for the Chinese mind and for Chinese civilisation; and I am willing to believe that Chinese civilisation at its highest has graces and excellences which... It is not of advantage for us to indulge a sentimental attitude towards the past. For one thing, in even the very best living tradition there is always a mixture of good and bad, and much that deserves criticism; and for another, tradition is not a matter of feeling alone. Nor can we safely, without very close examination, dig ourselves in stubbornly to a few dogmatic notions, for what is a healthy belief at one point may, unless it is one of the few fundamental things, be a pernicious prejudice at another. Nor should we cling to traditions as a way...
Super funny "A trained mind, always knows who its master is; and an Untrained mind is a blind servant and a fatal leader." T.S. Eliot, page 59. I was unfamliar with most of the texts he crticized which made it a difficult read. I can't imagine what it would have been like to be in the audience for these lectures, especially for the first one. i want to give it five stars because five stars means "it was amazing" but "amazing" wouldn't be a compliment it would be in the obsolete form of its meaning: astonishing, disconcerting, unsettling. Reading Eliot' s prose...
