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John Dunn
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John Dunn original writing
Julius Evola
Lost solipsistic self
Gentile may have been right to insist that the pure act must be an act of creation in itself, reflective of first creation. To this extent ‘reality is a tale told by a thinker,’ but perhaps it does not signify everything after all. There is a flaw in the argument and Evola felt uneasy with it, in the same way that I had identified the kabbalism in Hegel.
It seems to me that this solipsism, this stage of individuation, this conflation of the 'transcendental I' with the Creator God, had to be reached repeatedly before the reintegration of the soul became possible. We had to establish that it is active, creative thinking that defines the individual as human, as opposed to the passive thoughts that accompany arbitrary and externally driven sub-human activity. But this ‘truth’, this ‘gnosis’, found within the human individual, is in danger of being treated as the very Substance that Fichte, Gentile, Steiner et al sought to escape, but in which the solipsistic self ends up losing itself.
From Child of Encounter
© John Dunn.
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From the archive:
A mind freed from the false opinions of the multitude
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Flowering Rifle
An on-going passsage-by-passage reading of Roy Campbell’s epic poem of the Spanish Civil War. He is an exultant nationalist and celebrates not only feats of arms but achievements of organisation, making live poetry out of the economics and agriculture of Franco's Spain.
John Dunn
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Just a thought:
We have to take part in creating ourselves and Dante believed that this creation of an original and unique self is the true art of life which can be practised by anyone, however simple. But it does not happen by accident. It must be persevered with - through Hell and Purgatory! John Dunn (Renaissance: Counter-Renaissance)
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The Oxford to Cambridge Arc 6
Further additions to the project, starting with Herman Moll's alternative to the Buckingham and Bedford route.
John Dunn
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Highways and Byways with Dr John Dunn
YouTube Channel
In search of the historical, quirky and unusual features of the English countryside as seen from the saddle.
Join me as I follow maps, park up and take a look around. CLICK HERE
“Seeking out historical places of interest has given me wonderful motorcycling opportunities over the years… roads and little lanes, through a variety of landscapes that bear the scars, marks and imprints of those that have trodden, worked and fought on the land before us.”
“Any excursion, whether it be by motorcycle, car, bicycle or on foot, is always better for having an object, or goal in mind. I could take no pleasure in riding around just for the sake of it. There has to be a mission.”
“I ride my motorcycle to seek out things ancient, quirky and monumental, taking in the views, and ‘reading’ the landscape,its geology and history, as I do so.”
Original commentary to all videos researched, written and read by John Dunn.
© John Dunn.
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