Category: Philosophy
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Acedia – The Noonday Demon
The demon of acedia – also called the noonday demon – is the one that causes the most serious trouble of all. It makes the sun appear to slow down or stop, so the day seems to be fifty hours long. Then it forces the monk to keep looking out the window and rush from…
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The Static Movement of Love and Beauty
STATIC MOVEMENT SOUNDS LIKE A CONTRADICTION so how can it work? James Joyce writes that … the tragic emotion is static. Or rather the dramatic emotion is. The feelings excited by improper art are kinetic, desire or loathing. Desire urges us to possess, to go to something; loathing urges us to abandon, to go from…
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