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John Dunn
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John Dunn original writing
The summoning encounter
Fichte’s illustration concerns two human beings. The encounter is open to chance. A lifetime might be spent without a truly summoning encounter, leaving the individual to lead a sub-human life, a Hellish life. Not everyone will meet his Virgil or Beatrice. The prospects of a humanising encounter might be limited by cultural insularity for example. Fichte argued that government institutions, education, the law etc. should exist to nurture and protect the conditions that foster the summoning encounter and synthesises. This sentiment was expressed most fully in his Addresses to the German Nation (1808), in which he argued for ‘a total change of the existing system of education’. In its place there should be a system of national education to apply to ‘every German without exception, so that it is not the education of a single class, but the education of the nation, simply as such and without excepting any of its individual members’.
From Child of Encounter
© John Dunn.
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From the archive:
Children of Urizen
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Edward Thomas
Extracts from a long out-of-print monograph that I wrote about Edward Thomas twenty years ago entitled 'A Bleak but Honest Resolution'. But it's still on Kindle.
John Dunn.
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Just a thought:
Martin Luther’s call for religious reformation had been hijacked by Calvin and turned into an economic crusade. John Dunn (Renaissance: Counter-Renaissance)
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The Oxford to Cambridge Arc 3
Further additions to the project, starting with the Buckingham to Newport Pagnell leg of Ogilby's 1675 Oxford to Cambridge route.
John Dunn
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