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John Dunn
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John Dunn original writing
Prometheus by Heinrich Fueger, 1917
A tale told by a thinker signifying everything
Gentile’s point is that knowledge is not about reality but is reality. The world about us becomes ours by knowing it, which means actively creating it. Nosce Te Ipsum (Know Thyself) and you will know the world. Nothing, in short, transcends thinking. Thinking is absolute immanence. The self of Gentile’s actual idealism is essentially a thinker who wills by transforming the nature of things, the realm of actuality, existence, according to his needs. This type of thinker is a Prometheus, not a Spinoza. The essence of the self is the will to think. The I is strictly speaking not I, but makes itself, or becomes I, constantly defending itself against the seemingly real, whereas ‘reality is a tale told by a thinker signifying everything’.
From Child of Encounter
© John Dunn.
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From the archive:
Edomite Red
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Love and creativity
The real and only meaningful opposition is between those whose banners bear the symbols of love and creativity and those devoid of love, life and humanity who would have us return to the One, the ‘amorphous state of pre-Eros, pre-Love and pre-Being’.
John Dunn
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Just a thought:
To normalise this massive trade in human beings, in 1711 New York officials established a slave market on Wall Street. Between 1700 and 1722 over 5,000 African slaves entered New York, most of whom came directly from Africa, while the rest from British colonies in the Caribbean and southern colonies. John Dunn (Renaissance: Counter-Renaissance)
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The Oxford to Cambridge Arch 4
Further additions to the project, starting with the Newport Pagnell to Bedford leg of Ogilby's Oxford to Cambridge route.
John Dunn
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