Re: Modern art (Kant and the sublime)

Hi Ari,

If you go to the web and access that Hong Kong URL there is a page on Kant.
There is a essay on Kant and Swedenborg. Kant said essentially that
Swedenborg was the most adept spiritualist of his time, as well as the most
idiotic. His metaphysics is about spirit, and his comments about Swedenborg
are extremely interesting. The modern play write Strindberg and the poet
Blake were abosolutely engrossed in Swedenborg. It was Strindberg's greatest
hope that his children 'inherit' his soul. He was concern about leaving his
spiritual inheritence and wrote a play on this topic. I think it was called
"The Inferno" but I am not sure since it has been years since I have studied
Strindbergian. 

I think that the questions of what is being, it's question, is an aporia
which can be pared or circumsribed by dialectic only through this practice
of an 'accomplishment' that is the provence of one's own thinking about the
'spiritual community' that exists in one's own milieu, extended family, and
significant 'others'. To simply ask questions, and refrain from propositions
is not going to get a person any closer to an 'ultimate experience' within
the domain of a 'supreme definition' regarding the ultimately real. More later.

Spater,

John 






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