Sunday, June 21, 2009

within or without

Schiller refers many times to interior and exterior.

interior is the mind, the imagination, the ideal, perhaps even the spiritual and or the supernatural. All is within is the higher.

exterior is the practical, the material, the empirical and narrow pedantry. All that is without is the lower.

Schiller prescribes that the former is much too high to discern the particular while the latter is much to low to survey the whole. However it is this tension or "antagonism of faculties" which brought about the inevitable 'progress' of humanity; fragmentary, yet unavoidably so.

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