Hamilton 2019 hope and rapture

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philosophy does not know

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rapture

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[philosophy] deflates suspects dissects organises

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controls places distinguishes

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[philosophy] always wants to say more

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and say what it says for others

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[philosophy] it does not allow itself to be carried away

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to long to yearn

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[philosophy] does not wear and it does not know

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the melancholy tone, the nostalgia

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religion knows the yearning and

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the longings

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how can It be that philosophy has overlooked the importance of

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such moments in a life, moments that can be filled with so much hope

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there are many different versions of such moments

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silence and delicacy

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you have missed one of the most important dimensions of

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human experience

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philosophical ethics is in love with duty, obligation

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(…) it shuns sensuality of the body, longing and yearning, the grief of loss of things never had, or had only fleetingly

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lying in bed, with his hands on her breasts, is no answer to limitless evil and indifference

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it solves nothing

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it is a miracle that it is still possible

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(…) the kind of moment he [Berger] describes is a hope of better human life

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if you tell someone what to believe, he or she will most likely resist and become more

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embedded in his or her life as it is

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(berger) his is a philosophy of the

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subjunctive (Kierkegaard)

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the assertions of literary culture are written

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spoken, in the subjunctive

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we should not strip literature of whatever it is in it- many things-

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that baffles us

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[literature] it addresses the ways in which one’s life is knotted,

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seemingly hopelessly tangled, that is true

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to think of that address in manly moral terms is to fail to see the ways in which

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literature goads us, that need not to be a moral matter at all

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Simone Weil: the vulnerability of precious things is beautiful

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because vulnerability is a mark of existence

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when we sleep, we are enclosed in our humanity. we are innocent. our humanity, that is, shows up as innocent when we sleep

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sleep is therefore hope for us, the absence of sleep, a curse

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man, he [Cioran] says is the only animal that

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can not sleep when it wants to

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we move in such sacred places and think

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they are just spaces

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all our movements are influenced, inflicted, moulded, set in train

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hampered by the material environment in which we exist

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the snow, today, tomorrow, makes their world

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and who they are

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this is their version, at this moment in life, of Bergers holding his beloved's breasts and

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listening to the piano

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you can know this and still not have

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learnt it

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pierre Bonnard painted canvases of his wife, Mathe. Marthe suffered from mental afflictions that led her to an obsession with washing

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Bonnard painted her washing on countless occasions: soaking herself in water, getting out of or into the bath

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[Bonnard] his sense of colour and the absolute importance of colour in life

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is first of order

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in Bonnard rooms are filled with light and open onto gardens and landscapes of plants and trees, flowers, lawns

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and everywhere there is colour

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when I look at Bonnard's canvases I feel hope. you will have something in your life that will convince you that the world is not

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simply a random collection of disjointed objects

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you may have noticed your need for such things because the world does not strike you as being shabby as it does me

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but that just means that there are more things in the face of which you find hope

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if you do not have something like that which I have in Bonnard your life

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will be correspondingly deprived of hope

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I am saying that the religious attitude does not need

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the hope of life after death

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how could loving the world not be

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religious when everything in it invites one, goads one, to the opposite

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Camus invites us to find the gods

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in our lives

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one must never forget that some lead lives of misery

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in which the gods will never find a place

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[Nietzsche and pandoras box] hope here is an evil. it is

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what binds us to the world

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without hope, life gives us nothing- or not enough-

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to carry on

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Everything in Nietzsche speaks of a search for rapture (...)

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philosophy held out little hope for him, for, despite his protestations, he sought hope everywhere, in default of which his whole idea of life affirmation would have come to nothing

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there is no hope

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in philosophy

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[Philosophy] finds nature and excess dangerous in the face

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of its deep desire to subdue the world morally

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[Nietzsche] morality for him meant: I stake everything I am on finding out who I am, refusing to suppress the recalcitrant self-

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the fascination with violence, the horror of mediocrity the contempt and disgust, the endless waves of emotion, passion, affect- without giving these in their due, owning them, letting them speak or find their voice

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[Nietzsche] the moral seriousness he condemned is that form of it that wishes, not to place these excesses of life

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since they must be placed, but to rush past such things and to get elsewhere, before they are understood, before they can teach us who we are

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I am saying this: energy for life, the energy that binds us to life, is the energy of

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rapture; and the rapture can be that of Dionysus or of art or of the sunshine or holding ones beloved

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[religion] their limitless love of life so close to , feeding from, a limitless scorn for life, al the blood, all the tears: none of this can be

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contained to philosophy

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Berger's ecstasy is a lesson

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so much more delicate, subtle

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this rapture is always religious because it is always

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sacred

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[rapture] it consecrates itself to particularity

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this consecration is hope

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can philosophy offer such hope?

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(...) might its capacity to dissect and analyse be its strength?

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if you spend years reading philosophy and seek to think honestly about your life and try to bring philosophy into connection with it- it is hard to

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think there is no help, no hope, to be had from philosophy

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you cannot know you will cope with suffering until you

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are faced with it

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philosophy is in this way placed by life. this who are suspicious o philosophy, of philosophers, are right, if their suspicion is as I have tried to describe it

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from this point of view, philosophy must leave itself open to repudiation. it rarely does so

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[philosophy] its gesture of aggression is not worthy of it, but has accompanied it from its beginnings

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despite its better possibilities

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it is always said that moral thinking and experience has been irrevocably changed by Auschwitz. but no one believes it.

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As always in human life, when we say that everything has changed we find that it goes on as normal

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a question philosophy does not ask often enough: How is it

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possible to live in a world where Auschwitz has taken place

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[Auschwitz] one can have this sense: I do not want to exist in the world where such things happen

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do not want to be part of such a world

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no one can reasonably expect to be at home in the

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world after Auschwitz

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Richard Swinburne (...) goes on to argue that there are

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good reasons why God would have allowed these things to happen

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[Swinburne] wants us to forget how surprising it is that we can feel at home

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in the world, by turning hope into conviction, conviction supplied by a philosophical argument

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Swinburne mistakes where to find strength in philosophy: it will come only if philosophy is able to

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find its own limits and learn when it has nothing to say.

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Swinburne's is contrary to what he thinks

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a counsel of despair, not hope

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christianity has always been a divided religion

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torn between the affirmation of the world as something good and a rejections of materiality as a distraction from God

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the hope of religion, for religion, is that be capable, as Berger was, of loving such a world

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that is not something that any system can provide; it is something it is easy to think one is doing when one is not

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what is crucial is the spirit than animates life. seeing that spirit in another provides hope

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because it shows it to be a genuine human possibility

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I have met many who call themselves christians in whom there is no such spirit; and others who would reject any claim that they are Christian

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or in any sense religious, and in whom such a spirit is alive

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Robert Notzick once noted that auschwitz was the second fall of man and that we human beings had

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now lost the right to exist- it would not be a tragedy if there were no longer human beings

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whether or not Auschwitz was unprecedented in its barbarity, it seals

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our knowledge of what we are

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Notzicks thought makes us wonder whether we have the

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right to find the world enough

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but is Christianity is, however moth -eaten, still something that in its interstices, offers hope, as I have been suggesting it can, then it can only be in

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turning towards the world

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anyone who genuinely felt he or she had no right to find the world enough would be in such a state of

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wretchedness that his or her mind would blank ant the glare, to borrow again from Larkin

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McGhee said that "we have to learn when thinking can be shared, when its communication can only be indirect

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and when we have to stay silent"

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if I have a hope for philosophy it is that it could find a space for

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such a working out of anxiety