PHL217H1 Lecture Notes - Up Series, Earthly Love, Rat Man
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A dialectic lyric can philosophy and poetry be fused? the author silences himself doesn"t voice what he thinks, feels or wants. I prefer to speak humanly about it, as if it happened yesterday, and let only the greatness itself be the distance that either exaults or condemns (28) Rationality and paradox not simply the lack of logical comprehension that is both p and not p impossibility of identifying with abraham, not something which one can empathaize. I can think myself into the hero; i cannot think myself into abraham (27), he cannot comprehend or even think of being through abraham"s perspective. Recognizing the present how see abraham in the present? he is looking for a sign that is singular and unique to identify the knight of faith that shows me that he has made the leap to the infinite. Faith is a miracle and yet no human being is excluded from it faith is passion.
