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John Dunn
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John Dunn original writing
Rudolf Steiner
Meaning not in purpose
In giving man a fulcrum status to the future of the cosmos Steiner is conflating, or confusing, purpose with meaning. In being granted this necessary purpose, man becomes an adjunct to cosmic evolution, a mere ‘apparatus’. Steiner is in danger of returning man to the passivity of serving Spinozistic ends.
Given the times in which he lived, it is hardly surprising that Steiner was smitten with the notion of evolutionary progress. Even if he had rejected Darwin in favour of the morphogenetic principles of Goethe, progress across time was central to Steiner’s cosmography. The ‘elevation’ of man to an instrument of evolutionary progress is purposive. It might nudge us towards an answer to the question - ‘who am I?’, but if we are to discover meaning, it will not be in purpose.
From Child of Encounter
© John Dunn.
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From the archive:
Ilyenkov and the question
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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:
Unlike previous slaveries, there is no prospect of an escape beyond the perimeter fence. The world state cannot be opposed from outside. There is no longer any outside. Who wants to scale the walls anyway? Living the Dream has left the dreamers either consciously bereft of meaning or deluded into laughing despair. Under the sway of manufactured consent, man is as far from possessing Dante’s crown and mitre as he ever was. 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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